Vaccine program reset, shipments delayed
Although only just started, Mexico’s Covid-19 vaccination program looks set to take a three-week recess after Pfizer announced the suspension of its next three shipments here.
Although only just started, Mexico’s Covid-19 vaccination program looks set to take a three-week recess after Pfizer announced the suspension of its next three shipments here.
Almost two-thirds of the employees of discount airline Interjet went on strike this week, protesting the non-payment of wages for more than six months.
The Covid-19 travel restrictions in place at the U.S. land borders with Mexico and Canada are being extended for another month.
After criticizing social networking platforms for suspending the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he might create a national social network guaranteeing freedom of speech in this country.
A new 12-sided 20-peso coin honoring revolutionary Emiliano Zapata will be in circulation this spring.
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.
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.
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.