By MARK LORENZANA Children in Mexico between 5 and 11 years of age will soon get a covid-19 jab, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell announced on Tuesday, June 14. López-Gatell, in his weekly health report, announced during Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) morning press conference that the government has acquired 8 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s long-promised Patria vaccine against covid19 infections, announced as an emergency measure by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the spring of 2020, is nowhere close to getting into people’s arms. According to government sources, the vaccine is currently in phase 2 testing — there are five requires testing stages for a vaccine’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The massive public party in the capital’s main plaza Zócalo on Wednesday, Dec. 1, to commemorate Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) third year in office attracted more than 250,000 jubilant, mostly unmasked revelers, and offered up little in the way of new rhetoric from the president. The giant forget-any-semblance-of-social-distancing fiesta, which was
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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 Following a call between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the United States has agreed to send 8.5 million doses of vaccines against covid-19 to Mexico. The United States is set to send 3.5 million doses of Moderna and and 5 million of AstraZeneca, which require two shots each to
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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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