By KELIN DILLON A private aircraft was caught illegally transporting 5,775 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus at the Campeche International Airport on the evening of Wednesday, March 17, which were then seized by Mexico’s General Administration of Customs (AGA) and officials from the country’s military. Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) found the doses hidden in the
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The manufacturers of the Russian Sputnik V, which according to recent late stage trial results published in the British medical journal The Lancet offers nearly 92 percent protection against the coronavirus, is now looking to produce its vaccine in Mexico, according to Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Foundation for Direct Investment. “Sputnik V
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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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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Secretariat of Health (SSA) announced on Saturday, Feb. 6, that a further 9,837 vaccines against coronavirus had been applied in Mexico, bringing the nation to a total of 710,198 doses of vaccine applied in the country thus far. Of the doses applied, 71,300 of people have received the full two doses to cement their inoculation, meaning
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico has started the process of vaccinating its vulnerable elderly population against covid-19, with all Mexican inhabitants above the age of 60 theoretically available to receive the vaccine as of Tuesday, Feb. 2. The new phase began the same day that the esteemed international medical journal The Lancet published a peer-reviewed analysis of trials of the Russian
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — who is currently working from his private residence inside the National Palace after he tested positive for the covid-19 virus over the weekend — said in a tweet Monday, Jan. 25, that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a telephone call earlier in the day and
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