By KELIN DILLON New U.S. President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order, going into effect on Tuesday, Jan. 26, that will require all travelers entering the United States by air to provide proof of a negative coronavirus test taken within 72 hours of departure, followed by self-isolation upon arrival, bringing forth new challenges for foreign tourism in Mexico. Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Sunday, Jan. 18, during a university inauguration in Guerrero, that Mexico would accept a lower number of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations so that poor countries could be given better access to the widely-successful coronavirus vaccine, as proposed by the United Nations. López Obrador had previously said that Mexico had a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The director of Mexico’s universal covid-19 vaccination program, Miriam Veras Godoy, announced her resignation from the government post Sunday, Jan. 17. Veras Godoy, who helped design the vaccination program, which prioritizes first health workers treating covid patients, followed by citizens ranked by their age brackets, previously served as the director general of the nation’s
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By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Dec.12, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that mass distribution of the covid-19 vaccine among the general population will soon begin, starting with Mexico’s elderly population, once all health workers dealing with covid patients have been inoculated. All of the elderly in Mexico are expected
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Bvlgari, the Italian luxury brand, announced this month that it will be helping to support research into covid-19 and vaccine development at Rockefeller University in New York City. In September, Bulgari announced the formation of the Bvlgari Virus Free Fund, which is a financial program created to support various institutions researching covid-19 vaccines. Currently,
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Mexico’s Antivaxers
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) addressed concerns surrounding the nationwide distribution of the coronavirus vaccine in a video posted to social media on Sunday, Dec. 27. Political opponents of AMLO previously accused the Mexican president and his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), of monopolizing vaccine doses, and demanded that states and private citizens be
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By RICARDO CASTILLO No Lupe-Reyes Reveling The good news is that on Friday, Dec. 11, Mexico approved the Pfizer-BioNTech labs covid vaccine and will soon begin administering it to health workers and the nation’s most vulnerable. But while this may mean light at the end of the tunnel, for Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe (Lupe) worshipers, it did not come soon
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the distribution schedule of the new covid-19 vaccine in his daily press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The government recently revealed it will purchase 34.4 million vaccines from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and with upwards of 200,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccination expected to arrive next month. Mexico will distribute
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Dec. 2, that the government will purchase an initial stock of 250,000 covid-19 vaccines from the multinational pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as soon as the vaccine is approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). Speaking at his daily press conference at
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