Three years after Mexico announced the development of its own covid-19 vaccine, Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology Director María Elena Álvarez-Buylla revealed that the “Patria” vaccine is finally ready and has been approved for inoculation against covid-19
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López-Gatell’s public disdain for masks at the start of the pandemic may have only exacerbated the widespread contraction of the virus across the Mexican public
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By KELIN DILLON After 19 months, the land border between the United States and Mexico will open for non-essential travel on Monday, Nov. 8, to people fully inoculated against covid-19 with vaccines approved by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO). Travelers from Mexico will be able to enter the United States without presenting
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to a new ruling by Mexico’s federal court, all children between the ages of 12 to 17 will be able to vaccinated against covid-19 with the vaccine approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) for use in minors, Pfizer-BioNtech, going into effect on Thursday, Oct. 14. The order will adapt Mexico’s
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 14, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell announced that one million minors at-risk of contracting covid-19 will receive vaccinations against the virus, a choice affirming the multiple court rulings that have given children in Mexico the right to be inoculated. López-Gatell said the shots against covid would be given to children
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico fast approaches its Aug. 30 start date for in-person education for children, the implementation of its back-to-school plan has been fraught with confusion for Mexican families nationwide. Some parents have noted that their children who go to public and private schools have two different returns to class, with the public schools being completely in-person while
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexico’s hospitalizations caused by covid-19 have grown by a massive 562 percent in the past two months alone, the country’s hospitals have been suffering from a huge lack in supply of gel, soap and other necessary items used in the sanitation. According to patients and health workers, there is also a distinct lack of services, medicinal
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to Mexico City’s steadily rising case count of covid-19 infections, largely in part to the emergence of the virus’ Delta variant, the capital city will now regress back to an orange ranking on Mexico’s traffic light-based coronavirus risk system from July 26 through Aug. 8. While an orange designation is supposed to close the region’s non-essential
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By KELIN DILLON A third wave of covid-19 is currently in the midst of affecting Mexico after the highly-contagious Delta variant made its way into the country, causing cases to surge once more. Just on Tuesday, July 13, alone, more than 11,000 people tested positive for the virus, the highest new case count in a single day since January of
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By KELIN DILLON Starting on Tuesday, July 6, Mexico began registering its population from ages 18 to 29 to receive the vaccine against covid-19, as well as announced the release of government endorsed vaccination certificates for all those who have already received full inoculation. People in the designated age range can sign up for the vaccine on the government’s MiVacuna
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