By KELIN DILLON Barely one full week after their reopening, 39 Mexican public schools once again temporarily shuttered their doors to in-person classes after a number of their student populations tested positive for covid-19, said Secretary of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez on Tuesday, Sept. 7. A total of 88 schools throughout Mexico reported positive cases, representing .06 percent of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 16, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell said that there is no scientific evidence indicating that the Chinese CanSino vaccine against coronavirus, used heavily throughout Mexico, would require a second booster shot to maintain effectiveness. López-Gatell claimed that the widespread reports encouraging another dose of the vaccine are simply “a large
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XINHUA Some 97 percent of the patients hospitalized in Mexico for covid-19 infections during the current third wave of the pandemic are unvaccinated, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday, Aug. 3. “The vaccine has a very, very important protective effect in reducing the most serious forms of the disease … where people need to be hospitalized,” the official
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Britain’s highly acclaimed medical journal The Lancet on Monday, July 26, put the blame for Mexico’s ongoing shortage of crucial pediatric oncological medications squarely on the shoulders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). More than a year before the covid-19 pandemic arrived in Mexico in March 2020, the magazine wrote, the country was
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By KELIN DILLON A third wave of covid-19 is currently in the midst of affecting Mexico after the highly-contagious Delta variant made its way into the country, causing cases to surge once more. Just on Tuesday, July 13, alone, more than 11,000 people tested positive for the virus, the highest new case count in a single day since January of
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By KELIN DILLON Starting on Tuesday, July 6, Mexico began registering its population from ages 18 to 29 to receive the vaccine against covid-19, as well as announced the release of government endorsed vaccination certificates for all those who have already received full inoculation. People in the designated age range can sign up for the vaccine on the government’s MiVacuna
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A day late and a dollar short does not even begin to describe the backlog of direly needed medications that the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has failed to provide in Mexico. After six months, the UNOPS, the organization to which the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid 2.389 billion pesos
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By KELIN DILLON In the 24 hour period from June 21 to June 22, a total of 261 people died in Mexico from covid-19, bringing the country’s death toll, as confirmed by the Secretariat of Public Health, to 231,505. Likewise, another 4,223 positive cases were recorded in the same time frame, taking Mexico’s active case load to an estimated 25,060
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By KELIN DILLON As part of Mexico’s ongoing vaccination program against covid-19, the government has now opened vaccine registration for all inhabitants between the ages of 30 and 39, announced Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell on Tuesday, June 22. “Registration is simple, with your unique population registration card and registered address,” said López-Gatell, encouraging all eligible residents to sign up
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