By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico-U.S. Border Shut for Nonessentials U.S. President Donald Trump perhaps was not precise enough when he announced on Friday, March 20, that with the agreement of the Mexican government, he was “closing the border” as of midnight. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency had to come to the immediate rescue with a press release clarifying the
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XINHUA Liga MX president Enrique Bonilla has become the second Mexican soccer official to test positive for the coronavirus in three days. “So far I have no serious symptom and I will remain in quarantine, as indicated by health authorities,” Bonilla said in a statement on Friday, March 20. Three days earlier, Alberto Marrero, the president of Atlético San Luís,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that thus far in these coronavirus adventurous times, Mexico has registered only about 120 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 syndrome, and only one death. But in the eyes of Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, now the official government spokesman on the pandemic, the ordeal is just getting started and the projected worse
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to the Mexican Health Secretariat, the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 virus nationwide had reached 82 as of Monday, March 16. That figure represents an increase of 29 cases compared to the official figure the day before. The secretariat’s Promotion for Health Director General Ricardo Cortés Alcalá went on to say that
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XINHUA The novel coronavirus continued to slowly spread across Latin America Sunday, March 8, as countries in the region reported a gradual increase in Covid-19 cases. As of Saturday, March 7, Mexico had seven confirmed case of the disease, according to the nation’s Public Health Secretariat (SSP). An SSP spokesman said the cases had been detected in Mexico City, the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Fashion may make a statement, but it is your face that leaves the most lasting impression. Your eyes, lips and skin define your personality, mood and individuality. Today’s cosmetics and beauty products are not coverups intended to conceal, but rather subtle tools to have enhance natural features and accentuate your overall appearance. And whether you are going
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19, Imported From Italy Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell informed the public on Sunday, March 1, that there are now five confirmed cases of Covid-19 (also known as novel coronavirus), plus 11 suspected cases. Hence, he said, the nation is not in a state of emergency. López-Gatell said that the outbreak of the virus in Mexico
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XINHUA The Mexican government announced on Friday the country’s first case of COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, on Friday, Feb. 28. Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez said in a news conference that a 35-year-old man had tested positive for the virus. The patient, who had recently traveled to northern Italy, tested positive in two separate tests on Thursday, Feb.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a barrage of media reports and a flood of public condemnation, Mexican Health Secretary (SSA) Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, March 30, seemed to walk back (at least in words, if not in practice) a decision one day earlier to suspend neonatal testing at public hospitals across the country. In a SSA statement
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF So-called populist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be ready to plow up to 107 billion pesos in life support for the desperately moribund state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex, which with financial obligations of more than $106 billion, is the world’s most-indebted oil company), but he doesn’t seem to have the
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