The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A total of 95,095 health workers across Mexico received a Covid-19 shot on Thursday, January 14, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell confirmed at his regular evening press conference.
Twelve million people in Mexico are likely to receive the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, after a preliminary deal was made between the two nations.
Mexico’s chief coronavirus spokesperson, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell, has become the target of fierce criticism for taking a short New Year’s break on Oaxaca’s coastline, where he was photographed sitting in an open-air beach restaurant without a face mask.
The Covid-19 travel restrictions in place at the U.S. land borders with Mexico and Canada are being extended for another month.
Jalisco is increasing its Covid-19 bed capacity in a bid to ease the burden on the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), whose hospitals and ICUs are becoming increasingly stretched as the transmission rate of the virus maintains a steady rhythm in the state.
A new 12-sided 20-peso coin honoring revolutionary Emiliano Zapata will be in circulation this spring.
After weathering 12 months of topsy-turvy current events, it’s impossible to predict what will transpire during 2021.
The Mexican government has offered political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, after a British judge Monday refused to extradite him to the United States to be tried for the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents in 2010 and 2011 relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as diplomatic cables of hundreds of thousands of secret documents.
After receiving its first batches of Pfizer vaccines last week, Mexico became the first Latin American nation to apply Covid-19 inoculations.
