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Study Finds 50 Percent of Mexicans Have Already Had Covid

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By KELIN DILLON Figures from Mexico’s Secretariat of Health (SSA) revealed that between 45 and 50 percent of the Mexican population have already contracted covid-19, according to a new study conducted between the National Institute of Public Health and the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). “We estimate that 47 percent of the people who live

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AMLO Vows to Have All Mexicans Vaccinated by October

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF All adult Mexicans will have received at least one dosage of a covid-19 vaccine by October, ahead of the traditional winter flu season, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, May 18. Speaking during his daily press conference at the National Palace, AMLO pointed out that the government’s national vaccination program has recently

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Analysts Predict 4.8 Percent Growth for Mexico in 2021

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XINHUA Private-sector analysts are now predicting that Mexico’s economy will grow 4.8 percent in 2021, up from the 4.5 percent previously projected, a survey by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) announced Monday, May 3. For 2022, analysts maintained their forecast for Mexican gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 2.7 percent, according to the poll of 38 leading financial groups

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Mexico to Produce Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine

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XINHUA Mexico will being production of Russia’s Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine as early as May, Russian officials said Wednesday. April 28, during Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard’s visit to Moscow. “Mexico is the first and only state on the North American continent to have registered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a press conference

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Mexico Has Second-Highest Excess Mortality Rate in the World

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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico begins expanding its administration of vaccines against covid-19 in its population aged from 50 to 59, a study from Free University of Berlin mathematician Raúl Rojas found that Mexico has the second-worst strategy in the world against coronavirus, only behind Peru.  The country has seen over 444,000 excess deaths than anticipated throughout the pandemic, according

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AMLO Donates Vaccines to India

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, April 27, that his government will be donating 1.2 million AstraZeneca covid vaccines to India in solidarity with that nation’s current coronavirus crisis. “When we were presented with a difficult situation, the second wave of the disease, we turned to India and it helped

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Mexico’s Own Covid-19 Vaccine Estimated Ready by Year’s End

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) has announced the nation’s own vaccine, called Patria (or “fatherland), is estimated to be ready by the end of 2021 for administration throughout the country, following the beginning of volunteer-based human trials this month. If the vaccine is deemed successful, it has the opportunity to save Mexico more than

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U.S. Already Vaccinated More Mexicans Than Mexico Has

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By KELIN DILLON According to numbers coming from the U.S. covid-19 vaccination program, the United States has already vaccinated more Mexicans within its borders than Mexico has of its own population. Mexico is reportedly vaccinating 64,000 members of its population a day, a number shattered by the U.S. daily average of 1.9 million inoculations daily, with the United States achieving

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