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Assange offered Mexico escape route

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.

Mexico’s coronavirus czar ignores his own advice

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.

Mexico won’t ban UK flights

In contrast to almost 60 other nations, including Canada, Mexico will not ban flights from the United Kingdom following the detection of a new coronavirus strain by UK scientists.

Covid spirals; as new records are set

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.

NYT exposes Mexico City Covid cover-up

Mexico’s chief coronavirus spokesperson and the mayor of Mexico City have defended themselves following a report in the New York Times claiming they misled the public about the coronavirus outbreak in the capital.