General News

Cancun will be the first beach destination on the American continent to receive the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Security Seal, a distinction awarded to tourist destinations and companies that adopt its standards to guarantee the hygiene of establishments and protect the health of travelers.

Violence in Mexico showed no sign of slacking during April, with 3,020 homicides reported throughout the nation – 100 every 24 hours. 

While beer is just beginning to been seen on shelves again, as Corona brings in stocks from nearby states that had dry laws in place, the Cervezeria Modelo plant in Hidalgo state was able to circumvent the ban on beer production by creating a 1.8-percent near beer drink made of barley.

Since the start of the pandemic, Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 149 medical personnel in Mexico – 122 of them doctors, according to Jose Luis Alomia, the federal health ministry’s director general of epidemiology.

Worldwide, just under 47,000 non-immigrant visas were issued in April, a drop from around 400,000 one month prior, according to statistics released by the U.S. State Department. As elsewhere, U.S. diplomatic missions in Mexico are only issuing visas to foreigners for emergency travel situations.

April saw the loss of 555,247 formal jobs in Mexico, according to data supplied by the Instituto Mexicana de Seguro Social (IMSS).

The World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom has stated that countries fighting the coronavirus should “test, test, test.”

Restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada are set to expire on May 21.