By KELIN DILLON In the 24 hour period from June 21 to June 22, a total of 261 people died in Mexico from covid-19, bringing the country’s death toll, as confirmed by the Secretariat of Public Health, to 231,505. Likewise, another 4,223 positive cases were recorded in the same time frame, taking Mexico’s active case load to an estimated 25,060
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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 Since Mexico’s elections took place on June 6, the country’s rate of vaccination against covid-19 has continuously declined, while its number of positive cases has shot up dramatically, leading to a microscopic analysis from experts on just why Mexico’s fight against coronavirus has gone sideways, again. Secretary of the Treasury Arturo Herrera had warned in cabinet meetings
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) received his second jab of AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, June 15, 56 days after having gotten his first shot of the medication. AMLO was administered the vaccine Tuesday by a government nurse, Melina Vega, at the close of his daily press conference inside the National Palace.
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XINHUA Mexico launched its immunization plan against covid-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday, April 20, with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks. Federal and state health authorities started the immunization program for educational staff in the states of Coahuila, Nayarit, Tamaulipas,
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XINHUA China’s top legislator, Li Zhanshu, held talks via video link on Tuesday, March 20, with Oscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, speaker of Mexico’s Senate, with both sides pledging enhanced cooperation to promote bilateral relations. Calling China and Mexico “good friends and good partners,” Li said Sino-Mexico relations have developed in an all-around way, as indicated by the sound momentum in
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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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XINHUA Leticia Robles makes a meager living by selling artisan soaps made of aromatic essential oils. At least, she did until the covid-19 pandemic dried up tourism in Huichapan, a small village in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. Designated a “Magic Town” by Mexico’s Tourism Secretariat, Huichapan was until the covid-19 outbreak in February 2020 a tourist magnet known
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