By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 14, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell announced that one million minors at-risk of contracting covid-19 will receive vaccinations against the virus, a choice affirming the multiple court rulings that have given children in Mexico the right to be inoculated. López-Gatell said the shots against covid would be given to children
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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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By KELIN DILLON Barely one full week after their reopening, 39 Mexican public schools once again temporarily shuttered their doors to in-person classes after a number of their student populations tested positive for covid-19, said Secretary of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez on Tuesday, Sept. 7. A total of 88 schools throughout Mexico reported positive cases, representing .06 percent of
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Last week, Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat acknowledged that the country had surpassed the 3-million-case mark of covid-19 cases. And those were just the confirmed cases. Because of low testing rates and questionable recordkeeping practices, many national and international medical experts estimate that the real number of covid cases in Mexico could be 25 or 30 times higher
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Britain’s highly acclaimed medical journal The Lancet on Monday, July 26, put the blame for Mexico’s ongoing shortage of crucial pediatric oncological medications squarely on the shoulders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). More than a year before the covid-19 pandemic arrived in Mexico in March 2020, the magazine wrote, the country was
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By KELIN DILLON A third wave of covid-19 is currently in the midst of affecting Mexico after the highly-contagious Delta variant made its way into the country, causing cases to surge once more. Just on Tuesday, July 13, alone, more than 11,000 people tested positive for the virus, the highest new case count in a single day since January of
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico, vital oncological drugs necessary to fight children’s cancer did not arrive over the weekend as promised by the Mexican government, revealed the Association of Parents with Sick Children in a letter. Authorities assured the parents on Wednesday, June 23, that the medications would arrive by Saturday, June 26, but the day came and went without
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 179,000 undocumented migrants were encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border in April, the highest one-month total in more than two decades, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday, May 11, although they said that there were fewer unaccompanied children. According to Customs and Border Protection figures, 17,171 unaccompanied migrant children were found in
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Wednesday, April 21, that his government will strengthen surveillance actions on the country’s southern border in order to offer more protection to migrants, especially minors. During his regular morning press conference, the president explained that he had held a meeting with representatives of the southern states of Chiapas, Campeche and
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By JORGE ANTONIO ROCHA Mexico’s National Commission for Health and Sanitation (Cofepris) confirmed over the weekend that thousands of oncological medication units were stolen from the government’s Novag pharmaceutical warehouse. According to Cofepris, the robbery took place in the early hours of Sunday, Oct. 4, by a group of 10 to 15 people. The total number of stolen medications came
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