Three years after Mexico announced the development of its own covid-19 vaccine, Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology Director María Elena Álvarez-Buylla revealed that the “Patria” vaccine is finally ready and has been approved for inoculation against covid-19
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies from three Mexican political parties — the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) — are set to file an official complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for the expiry and wastage of more than 5 million covid-19 vaccines. On Saturday, Sept. 25, Mexican daily
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, on Saturday, Sept. 25, reported that 5.4 million covid-19 vaccines had expired in Mexico and are set to be thrown away. Of the total wasted vaccines, 3.4 million are of the AstraZeneca brand, donated by the U.S. government, and stored in a warehouse of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) in Cuautitlán Izcalli, in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Dec. 10, that all Mexicans will receive booster shots against the covid-19 virus. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in the northern state of Chihuahua, AMLO said that the federal government will administer AstraZeneca boosters to all eligible Mexicans in accord with internationally
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A total of 2,160,900 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the U.S. government arrived at Mexico’s Toluca Airport, just outside Mexico City, on Thursday, Dec. 2, the U.S. Embassy said. “Within the framework of the IX North American Leaders Summit, the United States reaffirms the strength of our bilateral relationship,” the embassy said
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — the self-appointed champion of all absurd and leftist causes — chided the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, Oct. 19, for not issuing its approval of the Russian Sputnik and Chinese CanSino covid-19 vaccines. Yes, AMLO, a graduate of the Never-Been-to-Medical-School College of Political Lies and I-Have-Other-Data Propaganda, accused
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By KELIN DILLON After 19 months, the land border between the United States and Mexico will open for non-essential travel on Monday, Nov. 8, to people fully inoculated against covid-19 with vaccines approved by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO). Travelers from Mexico will be able to enter the United States without presenting
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government on Wednesday, Oct. 6, announced that it had donated 150,000 doses of covid-19 vaccines to Paraguay, as an act of solidarity under framework of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). The vaccines, which were received in Asuncion by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations of Paraguay Marcelo Scappini,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of November, the United States will require all international travelers to be fully vaccinated and tested for covid-19, while at the same time opening air travel to vaccinated foreign nationals from 33 countries, including the those in the European Union and the United Kingdom, for the first time since the early days of
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s vaccination efforts against covid-19 try their best to move forward, yet another roadblock has presented itself, this time in the form of a proverbial drought in doses. While last week, Mexico received over 5 million doses of vaccines from brands AstraZeneca and Pfizer, this week the number dwindled to less than half of that, with
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