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Even though children as young as 5 years of age are getting anti Covid jabs in many countries, Mexico is not considering including anyone under 15 years of age in its inoculation program, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell confirmed this week.

Despite some flight cancellations triggered by the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the United States, Mexico’s tourism sector ended 2021 on a high, with visitor numbers closing in on pre-pandemic levels.

Even though children as young as 5 years of age are getting anti Covid jabs in many countries, Mexico is not considering including anyone under 15 years of age in its inoculation program, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell confirmed this week.

The central plaza in San Antonio Tlaycapan is dressed up for the Christmas season with a life-size nativity scene illuminated with white lights set up in the bandstand (kiosko).

Throughout the first week of January Mexican bakeries and grocery outlets are stocked with Rosca de Reyes, the traditional crown-shaped breads decorated with jewel-like candied fruits that is shared among families and friends to celebrate the Kings Day holiday.

Nothing from the garden says Merry Christmas more brilliantly that the scarlet-hued beauty known most commonly in Mexico as the Flor de Noche Buena (Christmas Eve Flower).

Between January and November, Mexican authorities detained a record number of migrants — just over a quarter of a million, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit (UPM), a division of the Interior Ministry (Gobernación).  

Inflation may have been a worldwide phenomenon in 2021 (as this country’s president is eager to point out; see story page one), but that’s of little comfort to the millions of Mexicans struggling to make their pay packets cover the basic necessities of life.