By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A total of 1.75 million additional doses of the Moderna vaccine donated by the United States arrived Mexico’s Toluca airport, just outside Mexico City, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, the U.S. Embassy reported. The delivery completed the 3.5 million Moderna vaccines donated to Mexico, part of the 7.57 million vaccines that the United States has
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XINHUA As of Monday, Sept. 27, Israel will lift its covid-19 travel ban for Mexico, the Israeli Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday, Sept. 20. Notwithstanding, the existing ban on Israelis flying to Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey will remain intact, the ministry said. Israeli citizens and permanent residents who want to travel to the three countries must
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 14, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell announced that one million minors at-risk of contracting covid-19 will receive vaccinations against the virus, a choice affirming the multiple court rulings that have given children in Mexico the right to be inoculated. López-Gatell said the shots against covid would be given to children
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By KELIN DILLON On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Rogelio Ramírez de la O presented Mexico’s 2022 budget plan to the Chamber of Deputies under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), featuring no increase in taxes, increased spending in the health sector, and historical levels of public investment.
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s vaccination efforts against covid-19 try their best to move forward, yet another roadblock has presented itself, this time in the form of a proverbial drought in doses. While last week, Mexico received over 5 million doses of vaccines from brands AstraZeneca and Pfizer, this week the number dwindled to less than half of that, with
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By KELIN DILLON While the vaccine against covid-19 has been made widely available to citizens and foreign residents of Mexico alike, obtaining government endorsed proof of full inoculation that allows for foreign travel to places like Europe and Canada has been all but impossible, thanks to failures in the government’s online certificate portal. The portal, which requires recipients of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one week prior to when in-person classes are slated to begin in nationwide, the Mexico City Health Secretary Oliva López Arellano said Monday, Aug. 23, that even in the event that a positive case of covid-19 is detected, all schools will remain open. López Arellano said that if infections are registered within a
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico fast approaches its Aug. 30 start date for in-person education for children, the implementation of its back-to-school plan has been fraught with confusion for Mexican families nationwide. Some parents have noted that their children who go to public and private schools have two different returns to class, with the public schools being completely in-person while
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 16, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell said that there is no scientific evidence indicating that the Chinese CanSino vaccine against coronavirus, used heavily throughout Mexico, would require a second booster shot to maintain effectiveness. López-Gatell claimed that the widespread reports encouraging another dose of the vaccine are simply “a large
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By KELIN DILLON Early in the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 11, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Ken Salazar as the new United States ambassador to Mexico after the role remained vacant for more than half a year. “Many of us in the White House and beyond stand on the shoulders of Ken Salazar, a giant in the Latino
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