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 ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — As had been previously announced, staring in early November, all persons heading into the United States will be required to present proof of full vaccination against covid-19 by a World Health Organization (WHO)-authorized vaccine. Now that there is a need for a vaccine certificate, some in Mexico are scrambling to find
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat (SEP) announced Saturday, Oct. 9, that all students of basic education return to face-to-face classes in November, given the fact that very few covid-19 infections have been reported so far this school year. Therefore, SEP Secretary Delfina Gómez said that all kindergarten, primary and secondary students will be required to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Children in Mexico with compromised health will begin receiving covid-19 vaccinations as of mid-October, the government announced Friday, Oct. 24. Speaking during the daily press conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell said that Mexican children between the ages of 12 and 17 with chronic health
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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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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 JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite the growing number of new cases of covid-19 in Mexico during the third wave of the pandemic, the return to in-person classes is still uncertain. As of Friday, July 30, at least seven Mexican states had reported critical hospital occupancy levels, above 70 percent, while, in most other states, the number of confirmed
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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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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