By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Bvlgari, the Italian luxury brand, announced this month that it will be helping to support research into covid-19 and vaccine development at Rockefeller University in New York City. In September, Bulgari announced the formation of the Bvlgari Virus Free Fund, which is a financial program created to support various institutions researching covid-19 vaccines. Currently,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday, Dec. 31, that all Mexicans over the age of 60 will have free access to the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March. In a message released over social media, in which he also stated that the country will regain more than 650,000 jobs lost
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite a still-broadening covid-19 pandemic and a spiraling financial crisis, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) used his second annual State of the Nation Address (Informe de Gobierno) on Tuesday, Sept. 1, as a bully pulpit to lavish praise on himself and his administration. “Mexico has the best government during its worst moment,”
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Haphazard School Kickoff The school year in Mexico kicked off on Monday, Aug. 24, with all of the failures expected from a nation not accustomed to remote education. With classes at home, parents from all over the country complained first about the communications system failure as teachers responsible for their groups groped to find alternative education methods.
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XINHUA Mexico has been offered at least 2,000 doses of a Russian covid-19 vaccine and is to take part in its clinical trials, said Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Thursday, Aug. 20. “This is very good news because once again we are gaining time,” said Ebrard. Ebrard and Russian Ambassador to Mexico Viktor Koronelli met on Wednesday, Aug. 19,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Electoral Blood No sooner had Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) announced that the race for the midterm elections will officially start on Sept. 7, than the first missile was aimed directly at the second political force in the nation, the National Action Party (PAN). A vided allegedly showing Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo. the private secretary of Querétaro
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The London-based biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca signed an agreement with Mexico’s Carlos Slim Foundation on Wednesday, Aug. 12, to produce a covid-19 vaccine in both Mexico and Argentina to be distributed without economic profits throughout Latin America. The experimental coronavirus vaccine, labled AZD1222, which was licensed by AstraZeneca from the University of Oxford, is currently
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