By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of active covid-19 cases in Mexico during the week of June 13 through June 19 surged by 19 percent compared to the previous week, the Public Health Secretariat reported on Friday, July 2. Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) had the highest number of active cases, with more than 3,000
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Gregorio Avendaño Jiménez, Mexico’s first recorded victim of the dreaded “black fungus” murcomycosis infection that killed hundreds of covid-19 patients in India, died Monday, June 7, at the La Raza National Medical Center, relatives reported. Despite efforts to remove the infected tissue through surgery on aggressive surgery Friday, June 5, the 34-year-old patient continued
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After having managed to stay out of the global authoritarian populist limelight for the first two years and a half of his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has now grabbed the cover of Britain’s internationally respected The Economist magazine this week. Unfortunately, the portrait that the magazine, which was published
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, April 27, that his government will be donating 1.2 million AstraZeneca covid vaccines to India in solidarity with that nation’s current coronavirus crisis. “When we were presented with a difficult situation, the second wave of the disease, we turned to India and it helped
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Mexico Designers Set to Show at Russian Fashion Week By KELIN DILLON A handful of Mexican designers will show their latest collections at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia (MBFWR) this upcoming Thursday, April 22, via curated fashion films, giving worldwide exposure to a choice selection of Mexican brands, set to be broadcast live on international publications like Vogue Russia. The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Vaccine Chaos The covid-19 vaccine rollout in Mexico, which began in December of last year, has been chaotic, to say the least, with allegations of empty syringes, vaccine hoarding, preferential administration for government workers and political maneuvering. Currently, the government is dishing up a hodgepodge of both one-dose and two-dose vaccines (some internationally verified, some not) from
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) approved the emergency use of the vaccine Covaxin on Tuesday, March 6, making it the sixth vaccine to obtain approval for use to inoculate Mexico’s population against covid-19. Covaxin, which is manufactured in India by pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech, “meets the quality, safety and efficacy requirements necessary to
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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 Despite urging from scientists and medical specialists, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decidedly refused to make wearing a mask mandatory in Mexico. A letter to AMLO, signed by 400 medical specialists throughout Mexico, presented seven ideas to help combat the spread of coronavirus nationwide, including making mask-wearing mandatory in federal and state agencies, which
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XINHUA The covid-19 pandemic may have slowed international migration flows by around 2 million people last year, cutting the annual growth expected since mid-2019 by around 27 percent, according to a report by the United Nations released Friday, Jan. 15. International Migration 2020 Highlights, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), shows that since the year
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