By KELIN DILLON Thanks to Mexico City’s steadily rising case count of covid-19 infections, largely in part to the emergence of the virus’ Delta variant, the capital city will now regress back to an orange ranking on Mexico’s traffic light-based coronavirus risk system from July 26 through Aug. 8. While an orange designation is supposed to close the region’s non-essential
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A Close Cut
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Back in April of 2020, the Mexico City government introduced a special box to protect doctors and other medical personnel during the intubation of covid-19 patients. The box, which was designed by the city’s Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Secretariat (Sectei), in cooperation with the Hospital General, the National Institute of Medical Sciences and
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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 It was revealed in the release of Mexico’s Expenditure Budget for 2022, which details all the allocated funds for the upcoming year, that the country’s XXI Century Medical Insurance Program would receive a budget of zero pesos, leaving more than 4 million families without medical care for their children. The insurance was created in 2007 under the
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Fireball against Covid-19
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AMLO Administration and the Opposition
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Time to Mask-Up
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Lemon Beauty Lab, one of Mexico City’s most avant-garde and innovative beauty salons, launched a new service for its customers Wednesday, June 30, with the introduction of Botox and Dysport neurotoxin injections to treat premature facial aging. The Botox and Dysport service will be performed by registered physician and facial specialist Jessica Gutiérrez, who has spent years
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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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