By KELIN DILLON Mexicans working abroad in the United States who send money back home to their families in Mexico, better known as remittances, increased the amounts they sent by 39.1 percent in April, the largest surge in remittances the country has seen in 18 years. Remittances reached $4.047 billion in April, more than $1.5 billion dollars more than recorded
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By KELIN DILLON Batches of AstraZeneca’s vaccinations against covid-19 that were packaged in Mexico, made with active substances manufactured in Argentina, will be released this month, said Alejandro Svarch, head of the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). “I have the high honor and pleasure to inform you that the first four batches of AstraZeneca vaccine meet Cofepris
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By KELIN DILLON According to a study conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), nine out of 10 Mexicans who died from covid-19 were people who held essential jobs that did not allow them to work from home during the pandemic. A total of 94 percent of the country’s more than 220,000 coronavirus-related
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By KELIN DILLON Figures from Mexico’s Secretariat of Health (SSA) revealed that between 45 and 50 percent of the Mexican population have already contracted covid-19, according to a new study conducted between the National Institute of Public Health and the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). “We estimate that 47 percent of the people who live
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico begins expanding its administration of vaccines against covid-19 in its population aged from 50 to 59, a study from Free University of Berlin mathematician Raúl Rojas found that Mexico has the second-worst strategy in the world against coronavirus, only behind Peru. The country has seen over 444,000 excess deaths than anticipated throughout the pandemic, according
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Mexico could have prevented 190,000 covid-19 related deaths in the nation had it managed the pandemic in a more efficient manner. “Mexico’s Response to Covid-19: A Case Study” was carried out by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) by commission from the WHO as
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) has announced the nation’s own vaccine, called Patria (or “fatherland), is estimated to be ready by the end of 2021 for administration throughout the country, following the beginning of volunteer-based human trials this month. If the vaccine is deemed successful, it has the opportunity to save Mexico more than
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) approved the emergency use of the vaccine Covaxin on Tuesday, March 6, making it the sixth vaccine to obtain approval for use to inoculate Mexico’s population against covid-19. Covaxin, which is manufactured in India by pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech, “meets the quality, safety and efficacy requirements necessary to
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By KELIN DILLON According to numbers coming from the U.S. covid-19 vaccination program, the United States has already vaccinated more Mexicans within its borders than Mexico has of its own population. Mexico is reportedly vaccinating 64,000 members of its population a day, a number shattered by the U.S. daily average of 1.9 million inoculations daily, with the United States achieving
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By KELIN DILLON A large prescription drug shortage is now affecting Mexico following the Mexican government’s dismantling of its system to acquire and distribute said prescription, an issue even the United Nations (UN) says it cannot help to remedy. The Secretariats of Finance and Public Health took control of the national medicine system, which was previously under the jurisdiction of
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