....A few months later the pandemic had engulfed Mexico and thousands of people were dying every week. But Coquilteel and many small, indigenous towns in the state of Chiapas were left relatively unscathed. This has been a blessing but it also presents a problem....
Almost 30% of Mexicans have received one vaccine against Covid-19 so far but in the state of Chiapas the take-up rate is less than half of that. In Coquilteel, and many remote villages in the state, it's likely to be closer to 2%. Last week Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador remarked on the low vaccination rate in Chiapas and said the government needed to do more.