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Mexico’s health regulator, Cofepris, this week approved Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in the country, just one day after the respected British medical journal, The Lancet, published the results of late stage trials confirmingthat it gives around 92 percent protection against Covid-19.

Mexico is betting heavily on the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to inoculate the majority of its elderly population against Covid-19 by the end of April, despite concerns about its efficacy and safety.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, speaking on January 14: “There should be a national minimum wage of US$15 an hour.

Mexico’s Statistics Institute (Inegi) this week released preliminary findings from the 2020 census. Here is some of the most notable data.

U.S. President Joe Biden has named Roberta Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018, as his coordinator for the southwestern border on the National Security Council.

Mexico surpassed India to claim the world’s third highest Covid-19 death total on Thursday, with its tally rising by another 1,506 fatalities to 155,145.

In his second call to an international leader (Canada’s Justin Trudeau was the first), U.S. President Joe Biden discussed cooperation on a range of bilateral and regional issues with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Although commentators across Mexico’s political spectrum offered their sincere desires that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recover fully from his bout of Covid-19, the irony of his diagnosis has not been lost on the nation.