By KELIN DILLON There have been over 31,754 deaths reported in states across Mexico attributed to the coronavirus, a figure 687 percent higher than the number reported by the nation’s Secretariat of Public Health (SSA) of 4,031 covid-19-related deaths. El Universal received the requested the documents and statistics from 16 of Mexico’s states to find this figure, leading to the
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By KELIN DILLON According to data from Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Health, 82 percent of the 54,000 people hooked up to ventilators to treat covid-19 complications later died from the virus, exacerbated by inadequate staff experience with the technology. Despite an earnest willingness to learn, health professionals could not magically receive the proper training to handle these devices overnight, said
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By KELIN DILLON Following reports of falsified coronavirus test results, particularly among international travelers, the Mexican Council of Medical Diagnostic Companies (Comed) said it is working on a new initiative with associated laboratories to adopt a QR code system in hopes of increasing the reliability of test results. Fake test results for purchase have been on the rise since the
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By KELIN DILLON More than a million businesses in Mexico, or one in five, were forced to permanently shutter their doors due to effects of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, reported Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). Of the 4.86 million businesses registered in the Inegi’s 2019 economic census, an estimated 3.85 million survived, while 1 million-odd businesses closed
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By KELIN DILLON The Washington Post reported on Thursday, March 18, that the United States will send part of its excess supply of covid-19 vaccines to Mexico, which was then confirmed by Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the U.S. White House. “There is a vaccine agreement with the United States, to follow up on the conversation between Presidents
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By KELIN DILLON A private aircraft was caught illegally transporting 5,775 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus at the Campeche International Airport on the evening of Wednesday, March 17, which were then seized by Mexico’s General Administration of Customs (AGA) and officials from the country’s military. Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) found the doses hidden in the
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By KELIN DILLON As U.S. President Joe Biden moves further away from his predecessor Donald Trump’s much talked-about plan for a wall on the Mexico-United States border, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) ironically put his own wall up on March 5 in front of Mexico City’s National Palace, the place López Obrador himself calls home. Last month, on
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), during his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, March 2, promised that all Mexicans over the age of 60, or around 15 million of the country’s 130 million people, would be vaccinated by the end of April, following the reception of vaccines from Covax later this month. AMLO’s
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By KELIN DILLON Students in the Mexican state of Jalisco have been given the go-ahead to restart in-person education by the state’s government, despite not yet receiving the green light on the Mexican government’s traffic-light covid risk ranking system, something the federal government staunchly insisted states would need to reopen schools, until now. Jalisco, located along Mexico’s western Pacific coast,
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. President Joe Biden met for the first time since Biden assumed office in a virtual summit on Monday, March 1, with the U.S. president promising to treat Mexico as “equals” and the two discussing issues such as immigration, coronavirus, security and climate change. “I consider it very important,
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