By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico broke another record of daily covid cases on Tuesday, Jan. 18, with close to 50,000 new cases registered by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA). In total, the SSA reported 49,343 new covid-19 infections and 320 deaths in one 24-hour period. That raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country since the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An unmasked Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) appeared live in his daily presser Monday, Jan. 17, saying that he no longer had symptoms of covid-19 (which he was confirmed to have contracted for the second time exactly one week earlier). During the conference, AMLO said that he “cleared” the covid contagion and
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the rest of the world is gearing up to face the ominous threat of the highly mutated Omicron variant of the covid-19 virus, here in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is preparing to host a massive, come-one-come-all celebration of his third year in power at the capital’s main square Zócalo on Wednesday, Dec.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell said Saturday, Nov. 27, that global concerns over the new Omicron covid-19 variant are exaggerated and that “there is no scientific evidence” that the strain is more deadly. López-Gatell, who is Mexico’s covid-19 czar and who, for months, famously recommended against the use of face masks to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) figures, a total of 200,256 Mexicans died of covid-19 infections in 2020, a figure that is 34.7 percent higher than the 148,629 cases reported by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA) at the close of last year. The SSA figures only counted covid deaths that occurred
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a habit of going off halfcocked (so much so that one has to wonder if he even has a full one, but that’s another column altogether), but his latest plan to host a massive celebration for Mexico’s Revolution Day anniversary in the Zócalo on Nov. 20 certainly ranks among
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Not only has Mexico City (CDMX) registered the highest numbers of covid-19 deaths worldwide during the now-year-long pandemic, but the country also ranks among the the top three with the highest number of confirmed cases of the virus, the highest mortality rates and the highest number of active cases. According to World Health Organization
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XINHUA Mexico could return to “economic normality” by the end of June, with employment at the levels registered before the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (covid-19), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Friday, March 5. Before the pandemic broke out in the country in February 2020, the number of workers registered with the Mexican Social Security
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XINHUA Consumer spending and gross fixed investment in Mexico plummeted in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) indicated on Friday, March 5. Consumer spending fell 11 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, while gross fixed investment plunged 18.2 percent last year, according to two separate Inegi reports. In the area
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After a two-week hiatus inside his private quarters at the National Palace to recover from a bout with covid-19, a somewhat thinner, somewhat paler, but no less opinonated and no less verbose Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) returned to his early morning daily press conferences on Monday, Feb. 8. And while the Mexican president told reporters that
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