Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to ask U.S. President Joe Biden to share part of the Covid-19 vaccine supply on Monday, according to a Mexican government official informed of plans for the conversation.
The two leaders are expected to hold a virtual bilateral meeting on Monday.
What might look like the collaboration – a purchase, donation or loan agreement – is undefined, the official told CNN.
The first step is to ask whether the United States is willing to cooperate, the source said.
Mexico has purchasing agreements in place for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses with different vaccine manufacturers worldwide, the vast majority of which have yet to be met.
It also bought vaccine supplies from Russia and China, but received no vaccine directly from the United States, its most important ally and largest trading partner.
Pfizer, an American company, shipped Covid-19 vaccines to Mexico – but they were produced in European laboratories and arrived in relatively limited supply.
On Sunday night, Mexico said it administered just under 2.5 million doses of vaccines against the coronavirus.