Mexico People of Aldama and many other towns simultaneously sent letters announcing refusal to vaccinate Covid-19 due to loss of trust in the federal government.

For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vaccination of the entire population is a matter of a responsible national health policy and social justice.

Obrador on 15/2 announced it would "push ahead with vaccination targets for all people according to the priority groups that have been arranged".

In Aldama, a small town of about 7,000 people in the state of Chiapas, southern Mexico, some say they will not be vaccinated, regardless of the vaccination plan or type.

"Why do I have to be vaccinated? I'm not sick. I don't know but it wouldn't be good if they force us to get vaccinated," said María Magdalena López Santís, a resident of Aldama.

Indigenous communities like Aldama have long had no faith in the federal government.

Tomás López Pérez, an official at Aldama, said that everyone here, including him, believes the vaccine "has a disadvantage and a disadvantage."

"People don't have much information on this. Because we don't really know what a vaccine is made of, we believe it contains the nCoV virus and this is the main reason why people don't want to get vaccinated," López said.

As many in these towns often communicate in the native language, government information on the anti-Covid-19 strategy is in many cases not translated for them.

However, compared to many other places, Aldama was probably lucky.

The local official proudly asserted that no one in town was infected with CoV, although health officials were unable to confirm this claim.

Adolfo Victorio López Gómez, mayor of Aldama, says he believes traditional medicine can deal with Covid-19.

Towns like Aldama are autonomous regions.

As of 2018, Mexico has a total of 421 such areas, and Aldama is not the only town in southern Mexico that has refused to be vaccinated.

Earlier this month, José López López, the mayor of San Juan Cancuc, another indigenous town in Chiapas, sent a letter to state health officials announcing they were not vaccinated against Covid-19.

López wrote in the letter that the autonomous town with 45 communities and 24,000 inhabitants held a meeting at the end of January, during which the town's elders decided "the vaccination campaign would not be allowed".

The Chiapas State Health Authority responded that it respects the town's autonomy, but added that it will foster dialogue with communities for the benefit of everyone's health.

Chiapas Governor Rutilio Escandón also recently personally spoke out about conspiracy theories and misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine.

When asked about the refusal of vaccinations by indigenous communities in Chiapas, President Obrador stressed that no one was forced to be vaccinated.