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Plan for Mexico’s Return to Class Leads to Confusion
By KELIN DILLON As Mexico fast approaches its Aug. 30 start date for in-person education for children, the implementation of its back-to-school plan has been fraught with confusion for Mexican families nationwide. Some parents have noted that their children who go to public and private schools have two different returns to class, with the public schools being completely in-person while
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Read moreNew Travel App Offers Emergency Medical Assistance
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a complicated, modern, post-covid-19 world — with mandatory PCR tests and vaccination passport requirements — travel, especially overseas, has become a potential logistics nightmare for many vacationers. Fortunately, Universal Assistance (UA) has an app for that. UA’s new mobile application, called Autogestión Médica Mobile (Mobile Medical Self-Management), allows clients to manage their own medical
Read moreMexico Announces Plan for Return to In-Person Classes
By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Thursday, Aug. 12, the head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez announced the nation’s 10.step plan for the return to in-person classes, which are set to resume on Aug. 30, after more than a year long break caused by the covid-19 pandemic. “Why open schools? Children need shelter due to
Read moreFormer Mexican President Fox Hospitalized with Coronavirus
By KELIN DILLON After testing positive for covid-19, former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada, who was in office from 2000 to 2006, and his wife Martha Sahagún were hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 7, to treat the illness. Both Fox and his wife are reportedly stable with no serious symptoms. The former first couple of Mexico had already completed their full
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Read moreHospitals Left without Gel, Soap as Covid Surges in Mexico
By KELIN DILLON While Mexico’s hospitalizations caused by covid-19 have grown by a massive 562 percent in the past two months alone, the country’s hospitals have been suffering from a huge lack in supply of gel, soap and other necessary items used in the sanitation. According to patients and health workers, there is also a distinct lack of services, medicinal
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Read moreMexico City Returns to Orange without Added Restrictions
By KELIN DILLON Thanks to Mexico City’s steadily rising case count of covid-19 infections, largely in part to the emergence of the virus’ Delta variant, the capital city will now regress back to an orange ranking on Mexico’s traffic light-based coronavirus risk system from July 26 through Aug. 8. While an orange designation is supposed to close the region’s non-essential
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