XINHUA In recent weeks, the Chinese ride-hailing platform DiDi Chuxing has launched a series of support programs in Mexico to help combat the spread of covid-19. Nearly 500 cars, installed with plastic sanitary barriers and routinely disinfected, cruise every day in Mexico City, as part of a DiDi Drivers Club. Drivers are also provided with face masks and disinfection liquid,
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XINHUA The epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic “is moving from Europe toward the Americas,” Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Mexico, warned on Wednesday, April 22. The Americas have had “a bit more time to prepare for what is coming,” Morales Fuhrimann said via videoconference in Mexico City, noting the
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XINHUA U.S. President Donald J. Trump said late Monday, April 20, that he would sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States. The decision was made in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and “the need to protect the jobs” of Americans, Trump tweeted. It was not immediately clear when the suspension would go into effect or
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XINHUA As of Saturday, April 18, more than 100 people had died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours in Mexico, bringing the country’s death toll to 650, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell said. With 622 new confirmed cases, the number of the total infected in the country had risen to nearly 7,500 on Saturday, Lopez-Gatell said, although many medical
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XINHUA In a joint battle against the Covid-19 virus, China and Mexico are set to strengthen bilateral ties, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday, April 15, in a telephone conversation with Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. Wang said that Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reached an important
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XINHUA A forest fire has claimed nine lives in an indigenous Mixteca community in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state, the National Forestry Commission (Conafor) said on Monday, April 13. The fire began on Thursday, April 9, in the rural village of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, but strong winds fanned the flames on Saturday, endangering the lives of residents in the neighboring community of
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XINHUA A shipment of 11 tons of medical supplies arrived in Mexico from China late Friday, April 10, to help the country address the Covid-19 pandemic, Mexican authorities said. Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said via his Twitter account that an Aeroméxico Boeing 787-8 aircraft had transported the shipment, which included 1.9 million face masks and 820,000 surgical masks. “The
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XINHUA Maribel Mendez, a 47-year-old street vendor selling Mexican handicrafts outside the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, a place usually bustling with tourists and locals, is now struggling with her business, as the capital tries to ride out the Covid-19 pandemic under lockdown. Mendez’s stand is now covered up, since the museum — as well as schools, gyms, theaters,
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XINHUA Liga MX president Enrique Bonilla has become the second Mexican soccer official to test positive for the coronavirus in three days. “So far I have no serious symptom and I will remain in quarantine, as indicated by health authorities,” Bonilla said in a statement on Friday, March 20. Three days earlier, Alberto Marrero, the president of Atlético San Luís,
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XINHUA U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, March 20, the United States and Mexico have agreed to restrict nonessential travel along their border to counter the Covid-19 outbreak. Pompeo announced the restriction at the White House daily briefing on coronavirus. The restriction was similar to the one regarding the U.S.-Canadian border that the Trump administration announced on Wednesday,
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