By MELISSA T. CASTRO Mexico’s Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), announced late Saturday, Nov. 19, that the Cuban-made Soberana vaccine has been approved for nationwide use against covid-19. The Soberana vaccine, uses a conjugate of the receptor-binding “S” protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus recombined with a tetanus toxoid. Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell had
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) signed an initiative on Tuesday, July 5, eliminating Daylight Savings Time (DST) in order “to not compete with people’s biological clock and to return to ‘God’s clock’.” That initiative was then sent to the Mexican Congress to be approved. Noting that the economic gains resulting from DST were minimal compared
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO While Mexico’s covid-19 czar, Undersecretary of Public Health (SSA) Hugo López-Gatell, proclaimed in April that the country had finally overcome the coronavirus pandemic, the incidence of the disease has once again begun to tick upward, with more than 18,000 cases confirmed in the first week of June. Between Sunday, May 29, and Saturday, June 4, the country
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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XINHUA Due in large part to a government national vaccination campaign, while the incidence of covid-19 cases in the United States has tripled over the last two weeks, in Mexico they have been on the decline for the last four months, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday, May 17. While there have been some “slight variations”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite having confirmed one day earlier that he had contracted the covid-19 virus for a second time, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made a cameo appearance on the daily presidential press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 11, via a video. On the video, AMLO reported that he was feeling generally well, with only
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Dec. 10, that all Mexicans will receive booster shots against the covid-19 virus. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in the northern state of Chihuahua, AMLO said that the federal government will administer AstraZeneca boosters to all eligible Mexicans in accord with internationally
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s covid-19 czar, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, said Tuesday, Dec. 7, that the country will soon stop requiring international visitors to fill in questionnaires regarding their health on arrival in the country. López-Gatell said that there is no evidence that this measure, which was implemented earlier this year by the Communications and Transportation
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s fourth wave of covid-19 infections, which Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, Nov. 19, admitted is now on the nation’s doorsteps (although he said this in strict confidentiality on a live internet feed, adding that it should not be leaked to the press), could, over the course of the next
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently oblivious to the fact that his words were streaming live on the internet Friday, Nov, 19, Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela told attendees to the International Congress of Mental Health in Acapulco that indicators suggest that Mexico will soon enter a fourth wave of covid-19 infections. “Today, we are seeing early signs
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