By KELIN DILLON After 19 months, the land border between the United States and Mexico will open for non-essential travel on Monday, Nov. 8, to people fully inoculated against covid-19 with vaccines approved by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO). Travelers from Mexico will be able to enter the United States without presenting
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat (SSA) on Monday, July 12, finally acknowledged that the county has entered its third wave of the covid-19 pandemic after infections surged 29 percent in just one week. According to the SSA, the majority of new cases of coronavirus infections are of younger Mexicans, most of whom have yet to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), nearly three years into his six-year term, spoke to the nation in a televised address on Thursday, July 1, marking the third anniversary of his 2018 electoral victory. During the 40-minute address, AMLO showcased what he said were his administration’s most important successes and made predictions for
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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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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Mexico could have prevented 190,000 covid-19 related deaths in the nation had it managed the pandemic in a more efficient manner. “Mexico’s Response to Covid-19: A Case Study” was carried out by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) by commission from the WHO as
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) approved the emergency use of the vaccine Covaxin on Tuesday, March 6, making it the sixth vaccine to obtain approval for use to inoculate Mexico’s population against covid-19. Covaxin, which is manufactured in India by pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech, “meets the quality, safety and efficacy requirements necessary to
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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite not having yet been approved by any international health organization or having had its Phase 3 clinical trials published or peer-reviewed by external sources, Mexico on Wednesday, Feb. 10, approved emergency use of the controversial Chinese CanSino covid-19 vaccine. Produced by the Beijing-based CanSino Biologics, the still-experimental one-shot vaccine is alleged by China to have a
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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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