By KELIN DILLON As part of Mexico’s ongoing vaccination program against covid-19, the government has now opened vaccine registration for all inhabitants between the ages of 30 and 39, announced Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell on Tuesday, June 22. “Registration is simple, with your unique population registration card and registered address,” said López-Gatell, encouraging all eligible residents to sign up
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By KELIN DILLON Six people in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora that were completely vaccinated against coronavirus have reportedly died from covid-19, with a further 24 people who received a single dose of the vaccine likewise passing away in the area. Despite the startling news, Sonora’s Secretary of Health Enrique Clausen urged his state’s inhabitants not to let the news
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By KELIN DILLON Figures from Mexico’s Secretariat of Health (SSA) revealed that between 45 and 50 percent of the Mexican population have already contracted covid-19, according to a new study conducted between the National Institute of Public Health and the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). “We estimate that 47 percent of the people who live
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) has announced the nation’s own vaccine, called Patria (or “fatherland), is estimated to be ready by the end of 2021 for administration throughout the country, following the beginning of volunteer-based human trials this month. If the vaccine is deemed successful, it has the opportunity to save Mexico more than
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By KELIN DILLON Much controversy has arisen in Mexico over the distribution of “air vaccines” following a viral video of a nurse pretending to inoculate an elderly man against coronavirus while merely inserting an empty syringe into his arm, leading to uneasiness throughout the country about the purported reality of Mexico’s vaccination process. Though the empty vaccine appeared to be
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Federalist Alliance of Governors has announced it will accept and sign President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) national agreement for democracy, on the conditions of its oversight by the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the removal of the so-called “servants of the nation” (all members and supporters of his leftist National Regeneration Movement, or Morena, party)
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), during his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, March 2, promised that all Mexicans over the age of 60, or around 15 million of the country’s 130 million people, would be vaccinated by the end of April, following the reception of vaccines from Covax later this month. AMLO’s
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By KELIN DILLON Mexicans fortunate enough to receive a vaccine against covid-19 have been asked for their CURP (Individual national identification) and voting credentials upon arrival to the inoculation site, which would then be photographed and put on record by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) public servants, causing outrage among opposition parties, and a proclamation of innocence from Mexican President Andrés
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By KELIN DILLON Despite growing opposition and advice to the contrary from both national and international medical specialists, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided to continue on as planned with his controversial National Vaccine Strategy, which now targets rural communities as the first priority for vaccination over Mexico’s urban epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak, like Mexico City.
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s usually-robust tourism industry suffered brutal losses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, reaching its lowest level since World War II, and now experts are warning that 2021 could fare even worse for Mexico’s tourism than its predecessor. Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed in a report there was a 46 percent drop
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