XINHUA The Mexican Public Health Secretariat (SSA) has confirmed at least 60 cases of monkeypox. Speaking during the daily morning press conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, July 26, SSA Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said that, to date, there have been no fatalities from monkeypox in Mexico. “Only about five or
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By MARK LORENZANA Children in Mexico between 5 and 11 years of age will soon get a covid-19 jab, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell announced on Tuesday, June 14. López-Gatell, in his weekly health report, announced during Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) morning press conference that the government has acquired 8 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO While Mexico’s covid-19 czar, Undersecretary of Public Health (SSA) Hugo López-Gatell, proclaimed in April that the country had finally overcome the coronavirus pandemic, the incidence of the disease has once again begun to tick upward, with more than 18,000 cases confirmed in the first week of June. Between Sunday, May 29, and Saturday, June 4, the country
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, May 31 – also known as World No Tobacco Day – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) signed a decree banning the circulation of and marketing of electronic cigarettes and vaporizers, extending his previous decree from October 2021, which put prohibitory limits on the imports and exports of the smoking devices. “The industry claims
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first confirmed case of monkeypox in Mexico was diagnosed on Saturday, May 28, Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatel reported. An extremely rare disease, monkeypox is a much less severe cousin of smallpox, and has recently begun spreading beyond Africa around the globe. So far, more than 250 cases have been reported
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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XINHUA Due in large part to a government national vaccination campaign, while the incidence of covid-19 cases in the United States has tripled over the last two weeks, in Mexico they have been on the decline for the last four months, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday, May 17. While there have been some “slight variations”
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XINHUA Mexico has registered a downward trend in covid-19 cases for five consecutive weeks, with half of the country’s states reporting no deaths in recent days, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said Tuesday, March 1. Speaking during the daily press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace, López-Gatell said that currently only
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Despite what he might think, Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón will not be a National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party candidate for the 2024 presidential elections for Morena. and that has already been determined by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) himself. Instead, Ebrard has become — intentionally or otherwise — a convenient
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) must investigate Public Health Undersecretary and federal covid-19 czar Hugo López-Gatell for his alleged responsibility for the crime of homicide during the covid-19 pandemic, a specialized federal control judge determined on Wednesday, Jan. 19. The judge also said that López-Gatell should be investigated for “his lack of duty of
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