Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 doses of the US-Germany Pfizer-Bioentech vaccine.
The country has died in the world's most epidemic conflicts, surpassing only the United States, Brazil, and India.
Shortly after Thursday, Chile and Costa Rica also began operating Pfizer-Biotech.
Argentina, which arrived in the capital Buenos Aires on Thursday morning with a supply of 300,000 doses, also plans to begin inoculation in the next few days, but the Russian-made vaccine has been chosen in its infancy.
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Brazil, which has recorded the highest number of deaths in the region, is not expected to start until mid-February, despite recent boosts in the number of cases.
President Zaire Bolsonaro has said he has no plans to tap. He believes he developed resistance to the coronavirus for a positive test earlier this year.
'We have to move on'
In Mexico, Maria Irene Ramirez, 59, head of the intensive care unit at Ruben Learo Hospital in Mexico City, was the first to volunteer for the vaccination.
"We're scared, but we have to move on ... and I want to be on the line of fire," he later told the El Universal newspaper.
The first 3,000 doses of the 34 million purchase arrived in Mexico on Wednesday from Belgium, where they are being prepared.
Footage of the launch was broadcast at a televised morning news conference of President Andres Manuel LaPage Obrador.
The Mexican government has said it wants to vaccinate all health workers fighting the epidemic by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
More than 1.3 million infections have been recorded in the country so far, with at least 120,000 covid-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
There have been about 600,000 confirmed cases in Chile and more than 16,300 have died; Costa Rica - about 163,000 cases and more than 2,000 deaths; And Argentina - about 1.6 million cases and more than 42,300 deaths.
Chilean President Sebastian Pierre has described the launch of his country's national coronavirus vaccination program as a moment of hope and excitement.
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