XINHUA Mexico has been offered at least 2,000 doses of a Russian covid-19 vaccine and is to take part in its clinical trials, said Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Thursday, Aug. 20. “This is very good news because once again we are gaining time,” said Ebrard. Ebrard and Russian Ambassador to Mexico Viktor Koronelli met on Wednesday, Aug. 19,
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XINHUA Mexico City’s famed floating gardens, Xochimilco, a major tourist destination and center for the sale of fresh plants, reopened to the public on Wednesday, Aug. 19, Xochimilco’s more than 1,800 shops and tourist boats closed down in early May — just prior to the crucially important May 10 Mother’s Day crowd –due to the coronavirus pandemic, representing a loss
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XINHUA Mexico has seen a “sustained decline” in the number of infections and deaths caused by the novel coronavirus over the course of the past six weeks, the country’s covid.19 czar, Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday, Aug. 18. “The trend is clear. Some indicators … show that consistently, in most of the country, the number of daily cases is decreasing and
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XINHUA Tropical storm Genevieve has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of up to 210 kilometers an hour on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, as it continues to move along Mexico’s northwest Pacific coast, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) announced. It is expected to hit Manzanillo, Colima, 630 kilometers southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, and will also
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XINHUA Restrictions on nonessential land traffic along the border between Mexico and the United States will be extended until Sept. 21 due to the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced on Friday, Aug. 14. According to the secretariat, Mexico proposed the extension of the partial closure of the border for another month after reviewing the
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XINHUA Former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto accepted bribes from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht and bribed lawmakers, Emilio Lozoya Austin, the former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), said Tuesday, Aug. 11. Lozoya, who is in custody on corruption charges for his alleged participation in a bribery scheme, made the remarks to Mexican attorney general’s office.
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XINHUA At least 15 people were killed and 22 were injured on Tuesday, Aug. 11, after their passenger bus turned over just north of Mexico City, local authorities reported. The accident occurred around 2:15 a.m. (0715 GMT) along a highway linking Mexico City with Toluca, capital of the central State of Mexico, near Ocoyoacac, a suburb of Toluca, local officials
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XINHUA The total number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the Americas has crossed the 10 million mark, accounting for over half of the global tally, according to data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, Aug. 7. As of 10 a.m. CET (0800 GMT) on Friday, 154,118 new covid-19 cases had been reported in the Americas during the
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XINHUA Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration (INM) said Wednesday, Aug. 5, that it has recovered 51 bodies of foreign migrants from the country’s northern border with the United States since 2019. According to the INM, members of its Beta Group special task force recovered the bodies from desert terrain and the Rio Grande River that separates the two countries, which
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XINHUA The sales of new vehicles in Mexico rose 16 percent in July compared to June, for a third consecutive increase, despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said on Tuesday, Aug. 4. According to the independently run agency, the country sold 72,897 units in the seventh month of the year, compared to 62,837
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