By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as confirmed covid-19 cases in Mexico passed the 4-million mark and covid deaths surpassed 300,000, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan. 7, announced that the country’s health regulator, the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), had granted emergency authorization for the use of Merck’s covid treatment pill, Molnupiravir.
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec, 22, that booster vaccines against covid-19 will soon be applied to both health workers and education personnel, as it continues to be administered to those over 60 years old. “We have to continue moving forward, as we are doing with booster vaccines for senior citizens, health personnel and teachers,”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Dec. 10, that all Mexicans will receive booster shots against the covid-19 virus. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in the northern state of Chihuahua, AMLO said that the federal government will administer AstraZeneca boosters to all eligible Mexicans in accord with internationally
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Dec. 8, increased its travel advisory for Mexico to Level 3 due to the high incidence of covid-19 infections in the country. A Level 3 advisory means that U.S. citizens who were planning to come to Mexico should reconsider their travel plans. The new State Department travel advisory
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an apparent reversal of its previous stance, the administration of leftist Mexican President Andrés Manual López Obrador (AMLO) has seemingly struck a deal with the Joe Biden administration to reinstate the remain-in-Mexico policy as of next week. The U.S. Border Control announced Thursday, Dec. 2, that the Mexican government had agreed to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A total of 2,160,900 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the U.S. government arrived at Mexico’s Toluca Airport, just outside Mexico City, on Thursday, Dec. 2, the U.S. Embassy said. “Within the framework of the IX North American Leaders Summit, the United States reaffirms the strength of our bilateral relationship,” the embassy said
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Friday, Nov. 19, all Mexican minors between the ages of 15 and 17 will be eligible to receive vaccinations against covid-19, the country’s covid czar, the Public Health Secretariat’s Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell, said Tuesday, Nov. 16. Up until now, only high-risk minors and those with compromising pre-existing
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — the self-appointed champion of all absurd and leftist causes — chided the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, Oct. 19, for not issuing its approval of the Russian Sputnik and Chinese CanSino covid-19 vaccines. Yes, AMLO, a graduate of the Never-Been-to-Medical-School College of Political Lies and I-Have-Other-Data Propaganda, accused
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government on Wednesday, Oct. 6, announced that it had donated 150,000 doses of covid-19 vaccines to Paraguay, as an act of solidarity under framework of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). The vaccines, which were received in Asuncion by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations of Paraguay Marcelo Scappini,
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