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Covid-19 vaccinations for young people age 12 to 17 with certain chronic medical conditions will start at 41 Jalisco hospitals as of Wednesday, November 3, the State Health Department has announced.

The restrictions on foreign nationals entering the United States will be lifted on Monday, November 8, the White House has announced.

Confirmed Covid-19 cases have continued to fall throughout October – the third consecutive month of a downward trend, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell reported this week.

Widespread vaccination is the major reason for the decline, López-Gatell said, noting that the federal government is on track to achieve its goal of vaccinating everyone over 18 years of age with at least one dose of Covid vaccine by the end of October. However, he skirted around the pertinent fact that around a quarter of the population has declined to get inoculated for one reason or another.

In Jalisco, 73 percent of adults in the state have received at least one dose of vaccine, according to the latest federal governmentfigures. Four out of ten adults have received two doses.

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated four Mexican nationals operating through the port of Manzanillo as pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act).

The often repeated saying that the violence in Mexico is confined to warring drug cartels and criminal organizations and doesn’t affect tourists was laid bare last week as two foreign female visitors died when they became caught in crossfire at a street-side restaurant in Tulum.

Mexico’s influenza vaccination program will start on November 3, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell announced this week.

Many voices north of the border are laying into the controversial constitutional amendment presented by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,

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.