The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In the early hours of Thursday morning, a plane carrying enough active ingredient to produce two million doses of China’s CanSino Biologics Covid-19 vaccine touched down at the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City.
While Christmas festivities are long over elsewhere in the world, Mexico adds a postscript to the holiday season with the February 2 celebration of the Dia de la Candelaria (Candlemas).
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.
All adults over age 60 in Mexico who want to receive a free vaccination against Covid-19 can register online, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell announced Tuesday.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, speaking on January 14: “There should be a national minimum wage of US$15 an hour.
Canadian tourism to Mexico looks set to come to a standstill, at least until the end of April, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced strict new anti-coronavirus measures for travelers last week.
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.
The health of Covid-19-infected President Andrés Manuel López Obradoris “evolving favorably,” Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell reported Thursday.
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.
