Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would volunteer to be among the first to try a Russian vaccine for the novel coronavirus if it proved effective, Reuters reported. “I’d be the first to be vaccinated,” Lopez Obrador said at his regular morning news conference.

The governments of Mexico and Argentina have partnered with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Plc to produce a vaccine.

Martha Delgado, a Mexican deputy foreign minister, said the country will need up to 200 million vaccine doses and that if so-called Phase III trials conclude successfully, the first could be available by April next year.

Mexico’s government has so far reported a total of 522,162 confirmed coronavirus cases and 56,757 deaths.