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Study Finds 50 Percent of Mexicans Have Already Had Covid

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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United States To Send Surplus Vaccines to Mexico

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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López-Gatell Catches Flack for ‘Misleading’ Mexico

By KELIN DILLON International attention was brought to the Mexican government’s mishandling of nation’s covid resurgence in a New York Times article published on Monday, Dec. 21, by Natalie Kitroeff.  The Mexican government had reassured its constituents that Mexico City had not reached case levels high enough to re-enter the red zone during a briefing on Dec. 4. However, according

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Mexico City, State of Mexico Reenter Covid Lockdown

XINHUA Mexican authorities said on Friday, Dec. 18, that they would re-impose lockdown measures in Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) amid surging covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. With hospital capacity close to 75 percent, a level similar to that of June, and year-end festivities around the corner, the measures are aimed at reducing the spread and curbing the

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First Confirmed Case of Coronavirus in Mexico

XINHUA The Mexican government announced on Friday the country’s first case of COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, on Friday, Feb. 28. Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez said in a news conference that a 35-year-old man had tested positive for the virus. The patient, who had recently traveled to northern Italy, tested positive in two separate tests on Thursday, Feb.

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