By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat (SSA) on Monday, July 12, finally acknowledged that the county has entered its third wave of the covid-19 pandemic after infections surged 29 percent in just one week. According to the SSA, the majority of new cases of coronavirus infections are of younger Mexicans, most of whom have yet to
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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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XINHUA Mexico launched its immunization plan against covid-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday, April 20, with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks. Federal and state health authorities started the immunization program for educational staff in the states of Coahuila, Nayarit, Tamaulipas,
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XINHUA Mexico has amassed seven weeks with a decline in active covid-19 cases as well as deaths, but the country should not lower its guard against the risk of a third outbreak, warned Public Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer on Tuesday, March 16. Alcocer also said that the Mexican government is refining its strategy for opening schools a year after they
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to the Salt Mines Both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off activities Monday, Feb. 1, after the Christmas sabbatical with an array of very important issues under discussion for voting as soon as legislators feel the bills are ready. It came as no surprise that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan.
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