López Gatell explained that Mexico decided to end the emergency due to a continuous downward trend in covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. In addition, the health undersecretary pointed to Mexico’s high level of immunity against the virus, either by infection or by vaccination
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccines Politicized Ever since the Mexican government announcement on Friday, Jan. 15, that “the last batch” of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines — 219,375 vaccine units, to be exact, half the expected number of doses, would arrive in the country Tuesday, Jan. 19, the topic became a focus of a raging political debate. But at the root of that
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Monday, Nov. 30, that “Mexico is in bad shape” with the covid-19 pandemic, and called for immediate government action to curb the surging cases, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his team seem to have missed the memo. “The number of increasing cases and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While many countries around the world are taking a go-it-alone, isolationist approach to dealing with the mounting international covid-19 pandemic, often resorting to finger-pointing blame games, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is instead adopting a let’s-work-together policy to confront the disease. The NAM — a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or
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XINHUA After inspecting medical facilities and coronavirus prevention centers in Beijing and other major cities, Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Monday, Feb. 10, that his government and people will overcome the outbreak caused by the new virus. Wearing a mask, Xi visited a residential community, a hospital and a district center for disease control and prevention in Beijing. The
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