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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has written to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) asking the agency to approve the Chinese Cansino and Russian Sputnik V anti-Covid vaccines, both of which are being applied in Mexico.

A replica of the figure of an indigenous woman from the Huasteca culture that was found earlier this year in a field in the state of Veracruz will replace the Christopher Columbus statue on Mexico City’s famous Avenida de la Reforma.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will deliver a speech at the United Nations in New York on November 9, as Mexico assumes the presidency of the U.N. Security Council.

Many people have complained of issues with the Mexican government website (cvcovid.salud.gob.mx) where one’s vaccine certification document can be obtained. 

A new agreement between the United States and Mexico that effectively ends the $US3.3 billion Merida Initiative will herald a new era in “equitable” bilateral relations, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said.

Various media outlets are highlighting the trade in false Covid-19 vaccination certification documents, which are mostly being sought by people who wish to travel but do not want get jabbed.

A 4.5-meter high totem carved from a single tree in Chumatlán, Veracruz has made the 9,000-kilometer trek to the United Kingdom in time for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

With the arrival of 585,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik vaccine on October 14, Mexico surpassed its population  in the number of vaccine doses received: 126,502,658.