In-person classes not obligatory, president says
Children will not be forced back to in-person classes when the new academic year starts at the end of August, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday.
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Children will not be forced back to in-person classes when the new academic year starts at the end of August, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday.
As is proving to be the case in many countries, the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is on course to become the dominant cause of Covid-19 in Mexico, according to investigators at the Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen).
A preliminary report by Norwegian risk management company DNV indicates that construction errors were to blame for last month’s collapse of a Mexico City metro overpass, which killed 26 people and injured 76.
After a year and a half of inactivity, Puerto Vallarta is expected to receive its first cruise ship in August, according to sources in the resort.
A plebiscite on whether to allow prosecutions of five former presidents will take place across Mexico on Sunday, August 1, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced.
Amnesty International says it is “unconscionable” that the administration of President Andres Manuel López Obrador is sending migrant children fleeing persecution or trying to unite with their family members in the United States back into harm’s way in their home countries.
Mexican legislators are urging the country’s Ministry of Health to issue an internationally accepted digital certificate, or QR code, that can be used on cellphones to prove that a citizen or resident of Mexico has been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Mexico’s Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez Gatell warned this week of a likely rebound in the Covid-19 infection rate going into this weekend, but stressed that new restrictions will not be necessary.
Arturo Sarukhán, the former Mexican ambassador to the United States and a noted journalist, has issued a timely reminder to U.S. senators about the value of the so-called “Dreamers,” undocumented people who came to the United States as children who find themselves in legal limbo.