By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Dec.12, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that mass distribution of the covid-19 vaccine among the general population will soon begin, starting with Mexico’s elderly population, once all health workers dealing with covid patients have been inoculated. All of the elderly in Mexico are expected
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday, Dec. 31, that all Mexicans over the age of 60 will have free access to the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March. In a message released over social media, in which he also stated that the country will regain more than 650,000 jobs lost
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccines for Mexico has been shipped out and is due to arrive in the country on Wednesday, Dec. 23, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday, Dec. 22. The initial installment of 250,000 doses of the vaccine left the Pfizer plant in Belgium on Tuesday and is being
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the distribution schedule of the new covid-19 vaccine in his daily press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The government recently revealed it will purchase 34.4 million vaccines from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and with upwards of 200,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccination expected to arrive next month. Mexico will distribute
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Alfonso Romo Quits Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) chief of staff for the past two years, entrepreneur Alfonso Romo, turned in his resignation on Wednesday, Dec. 2. Speaking during his morning press conference on Thursday, Dec. 3, AMLO that Romo “will continue to be my liaison with the business sector.” “The truth is that he
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Dec. 2, that the government will purchase an initial stock of 250,000 covid-19 vaccines from the multinational pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as soon as the vaccine is approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). Speaking at his daily press conference at
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Nearly 85 percent of all adult deaths in Mexico are the result of non-transmittable chronic diseases, and over half of those deaths are due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to internist Guillermo Fanghänel Salmón, head of the Hospital Ángeles Mocel’s Clinic for Diabetes and Obesity. “In total, about 600,000 Mexicans die each year, and more than 30
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