Mexico announces ‘new normality’ in plan to reopen economy
4 years, 7 months ago

Mexico announces ‘new normality’ in plan to reopen economy

Al Jazeera  

More than 38,000 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Mexico, but health experts warn the number is much higher. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has unveiled a plan to reopen the country’s economy by June 1 as part of a “new normality” after several weeks of lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Christopher Wilson, deputy director at the Mexico Institute of the Wilson Center, says the lack of data is a result of an ineffective “testing model” that Mexico has put in place, rather than too few tests, whereby the goal of any testing model is to provide officials with an overall sense of trajectories in different places around the country to enable leaders to make decisions. “Their model for testing is designed to highlight basic trends without providing an accurate measure of the intensity of the pandemic in different places in Mexico,” Wilson told Al Jazeera. “Mexico was doubling the number of cases every five days, which is occurring every six days now,” Lopez-Gatell said during his daily coronavirus evening news conference, “so it is possible to say that the curve is flattening in the country.” He added that the government’s “healthy distance” measures which encouraged citizens to stay at home, wear a mask in public and practise hygiene, had decreased cases by 60 to 75 percent.

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New Mexico updates public health order following CDC changes
2 years, 4 months ago

New Mexico updates public health order following CDC changes

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico’s emergency public health order was streamlined Friday, with state health officials saying the changes were in order given the evolution of the virus, the changing nature of the pandemic and new recommendations adopted by the federal government. The move comes after the nation’s top public health agency relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines and dropped the …

COVID cases in Americas hit highest level on record: PAHO
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID cases in Americas hit highest level on record: PAHO

Al Jazeera  

Health systems across the region are feeling the strain of a rapid rise in cases and hospitalisations linked to Omicron. New COVID-19 infections in the Americas have reached their highest level since the pandemic began, health officials said, as the highly contagious Omicron variant is now the predominant strain in the region. During a weekly virtual news briefing on Wednesday, …

Mexico weathers the Omicron surge, but experts warn against complacency
2 years, 11 months ago

Mexico weathers the Omicron surge, but experts warn against complacency

LA Times  

People wait outside a pharmacy to get tested for the coronavirus in Mexico City on Jan. 10. “This variant of COVID doesn’t have the lethality, the danger of the previous variant, the so-called Delta,” a smiling President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared in a video address last week after disclosing that he had recuperated from a second bout of the …

Mexico’s President Obrador tests positive for COVID again
2 years, 11 months ago

Mexico’s President Obrador tests positive for COVID again

Al Jazeera  

The announcement came hours after the 68-year-old president spoke to journalists during a news conference without wearing a mask. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he tested positive for the coronavirus again amid the latest wave of infections in the country fuelled by the Omicron variant. The announcement came hours after the 68-year-old president spoke to journalists during …

Mexican president announces he has COVID-19 for 2nd time
3 years ago

Mexican president announces he has COVID-19 for 2nd time

LA Times  

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has come down with COVID-19 again. Mexico’s president on Monday announced that he has come down with COVID-19 a second time, as coronavirus infections spike in the country and tests become scarce. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote that he tested positive after sounding hoarse at a morning news briefing. Mexico last week passed …

Mexico COVID-19 infections up, especially at tourism centers
3 years ago

Mexico COVID-19 infections up, especially at tourism centers

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy COVID-19 infections are rising across …

US to send 8.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico
3 years, 4 months ago

US to send 8.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The United States will send Mexico 8.5 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccine as the delta variant drives the country’s third wave of infections, Mexican officials said Tuesday. “With this velocity that we are seeing, the risk of saturation of the hospitals is very high.” Mexico has received 91.2 million doses of five different vaccines, about 73 …

US extends coronavirus closures of borders with Mexico, Canada
3 years, 5 months ago

US extends coronavirus closures of borders with Mexico, Canada

Al Jazeera  

Extension until at least August 21 comes days after Canada said it will ease restrictions for US travelers next month. The United States’ land borders with Mexico and Canada will remain closed to non-essential travel for another month, the US Department of Homeland Security has announced, just days after Canada signalled plans to ease restrictions on travel from the US. …

The U.S. Is Sending 1 Million Vaccines To Mexico Border Cities And Resort Spots
3 years, 7 months ago

The U.S. Is Sending 1 Million Vaccines To Mexico Border Cities And Resort Spots

NPR  

The U.S. Is Sending 1 Million Vaccines To Mexico Border Cities And Resort Spots Enlarge this image toggle caption Hector Vivas/Getty Images Hector Vivas/Getty Images One million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are heading to Mexico from the U.S. with most of the shots set to service resort areas and spots along the border. Sponsor Message In a bid to …

Mexico’s health workers slam president for withholding vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

Mexico’s health workers slam president for withholding vaccine

Al Jazeera  

A staggering 233,152 Mexican health workers have caught COVID-19, and 3,699 have died from it, according to government data, giving Mexico the highest death count for health workers in the world. World Health Organization guidelines say in a recent report that protecting health workers “protects the availability of a critical essential service.” It’s also, the WHO says, about paying it …

Mexico’s revised COVID death toll is much higher than before
3 years, 9 months ago

Mexico’s revised COVID death toll is much higher than before

Al Jazeera  

New data showed that more than 321,000 Mexicans have died from COVID, a 60 percent increase from the previous count. Johns Hopkins University’s COVID tracker, which Al Jazeera uses as its official count, showed Mexico’s death toll at 201,832 on Tuesday. The government said a review of death certificates revealed that more than 70 percent of the country’s “excess deaths” …

In Mexico, study of ‘excess deaths’ shows at least 60% more COVID-19 victims than reported
3 years, 9 months ago

In Mexico, study of ‘excess deaths’ shows at least 60% more COVID-19 victims than reported

LA Times  

As Mexican and foreign tourists head to the country’s beaches for Holy Week, prompting fears of a new wave of COVID-19 infections, the government here has publicly confirmed what many have long suspected — the number of people lost to the pandemic is more than 300,000, well beyond the totals officially reported. The new data examined so-called “excess deaths’’ — …

Mexico ramps up vaccinations as COVID deaths top 200,000
3 years, 9 months ago

Mexico ramps up vaccinations as COVID deaths top 200,000

Al Jazeera  

Experts believe the actual death toll is 100,000 deaths higher, but is unknown due to extremely low rate of testing. But authorities in Mexico City have published excess death figures through the end of February, and they show that January’s deaths were almost 46 percent higher than in the city’s first wave in June. Mexico’s health department acknowledges almost 220,000 …

Mexico begins vaccinating elderly against COVID-19
3 years, 10 months ago

Mexico begins vaccinating elderly against COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

Most of the effort is concentrated in rural communities, but hundreds also rolled up their sleeves in Mexico City. Mexico began vaccinating senior citizens in more than 300 municipalities across the country on Monday, after receiving approximately 870,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The effort was largely concentrated in remote rural communities, but hundreds of people over the age …

Three of Mexico’s most powerful men have COVID-19
3 years, 11 months ago

Three of Mexico’s most powerful men have COVID-19

LA Times  

A man reads the front page of a newspaper reporting that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has COVID-19 on Monday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, a center-left populist known to his legions of fans as AMLO, said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the virus and had isolated in his apartment in Mexico’s National Palace with …

Mexico, Central America cite Covid-19 concern over migration
3 years, 11 months ago

Mexico, Central America cite Covid-19 concern over migration

Hindustan Times  

The Mexican government said Wednesday that it and 10 other countries in North and Central America are worried about the health risks of Covid-19 among migrants without proper documents. Honduran migrants trying to reach the US hold a Honduran flag while standing in front of Guatemalan soldiers blocking a road to stop migrants from reaching Mexico's border, in San Pedro …

As vaccine rollout nears, many concerns raised in Latin America, hard hit by COVID-19
4 years ago

As vaccine rollout nears, many concerns raised in Latin America, hard hit by COVID-19

LA Times  

Families line up last week for COVID-19 tests at a testing center in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district, one of the hardest-hit areas in Mexico City for infections. Families line up last week for COVID-19 tests at a testing center in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district. “The management of the pandemic has been so bad that we are not optimistic about how …

Mexico approves emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine
4 years ago

Mexico approves emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine

Al Jazeera  

The country is the first in Latin America and fourth in the world to allow emergency use of the coronavirus vaccine. Mexico has become the fourth country to approve the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. “Mexico is the fourth country whose health agency, Cofepris, has given authorisation for emergency use of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine,” deputy health …

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so
4 years, 1 month ago

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A day after Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in confirmed COVID-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country to do so, its president and the mayor of its capital struck dramatically different tones. The milestone came less than a week after Mexico topped 1 million registered coronavirus infections, though officials agree that number is also probably much higher …

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so
4 years, 1 month ago

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Mexico passed the 100,000 mark …

Mexico Surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths
4 years, 1 month ago

Mexico Surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths

NPR  

Mexico Surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths Enlarge this image toggle caption Rebecca Blackwell/AP Rebecca Blackwell/AP Mexico has become the fourth country to cross the 100,000 threshold for confirmed COVID-19 deaths, joining the U.S., Brazil and India. The latest news comes just two days after the country of 126 million passed one million coronavirus infections, giving it the highest COVID-19 mortality rate …

Mexico reaches 1 million coronavirus cases, nears 100,000 deaths
4 years, 1 month ago

Mexico reaches 1 million coronavirus cases, nears 100,000 deaths

Hindustan Times  

Mexico on Saturday topped 1 million registered coronavirus cases and nearly 100,000 test-confirmed deaths, though officials agree the number is probably much higher. Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell says any wider testing would be “a waste of time, effort and money.” Face masks, López-Gatell says, “are an auxiliary measure to prevent spreading the virus. I said ‘Dad, do you have …

Mexico Records The Highest Number Of Health Care Worker Deaths From COVID-19
4 years, 3 months ago

Mexico Records The Highest Number Of Health Care Worker Deaths From COVID-19

NPR  

Mexico Records The Highest Number Of Health Care Worker Deaths From COVID-19 The coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 health care workers in Mexico, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for doctors and nurses to fight the coronavirus. KAHN: The numbers have improved somewhat in recent weeks, but health care workers still …

Around 7,000 healthcare workers have died due to COVID-19 worldwide: Amnesty International
4 years, 4 months ago

Around 7,000 healthcare workers have died due to COVID-19 worldwide: Amnesty International

Firstpost  

At least 1,320 health workers have died in Mexico, 1,077 deaths in the US, 649 in the UK, 634 in Brazil, 631 in Russia and 573 have died in India. At least 7,000 health workers worldwide have died after being infected with the coronavirus, including more than 1,300 in Mexico alone, the most for any country, Amnesty International said Thursday. …

Mexico Has World's Most Health Worker Deaths From Pandemic, Finds Amnesty International
4 years, 4 months ago

Mexico Has World's Most Health Worker Deaths From Pandemic, Finds Amnesty International

News 18  

MEXICO CITY: More health workers have died from the coronavirus in Mexico than any other country on the planet, Amnesty International said on Thursday, highlighting the high toll the pandemic was taking on frontline medical staff around the globe. At least 7,000 health workers around the world have died after becoming infected with the coronavirus, including 1,320 in Mexico, Amnesty …

Mexico No. 3 in virus deaths; storm could hinder US response
4 years, 5 months ago

Mexico No. 3 in virus deaths; storm could hinder US response

Associated Press  

Mexico now has the third most COVID-19 deaths in the world, behind Brazil and the United States, where a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast on Saturday is threatening to complicate efforts to contain the virus. A third person died there of coronavirus complications, officials said Saturday, a day after it recorded its first-ever death as it wrestles with …

Coronavirus: Mexico third in global pandemic deaths, Vietnam struggles anew
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus: Mexico third in global pandemic deaths, Vietnam struggles anew

India Today  

Mexico now has the third most Covid-19 deaths in the world, behind the United States and Brazil, while former success story Vietnam is struggling to control an outbreak spreading in its most famous beach resort. In Vietnam, a third person died of coronavirus complications, officials said Saturday, a day after it recorded its first-ever death as it struggles with a …

Frontline Mexico: The Fight Against COVID-19
4 years, 5 months ago

Frontline Mexico: The Fight Against COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

Mexico has one of the world’s highest coronavirus death tolls. It has 10 percent of the world’s population, but in recent weeks has accounted for nearly half the global daily death toll. Despite that, many question whether its rise here was so inevitable, or if the region’s second-most populous country simply got it wrong. Al Jazeera heads to the front …

Living with COVID-19 to be new normal as global cases top 10 million: WHO
4 years, 6 months ago

Living with COVID-19 to be new normal as global cases top 10 million: WHO

India TV News  

The chief of the World Health Organization said that all countries living with COVID-19 will be the new normal in the coming months, as the pandemic had already infected more than 10 million people worldwide, including more than 500,000 deaths. That is the new normal," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a daily press briefing on Monday, Xinhua news …

COVID-19 is ravaging America’s vulnerable Latino communities
4 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 is ravaging America’s vulnerable Latino communities

Associated Press  

GUADALUPE, Ariz. — A Hispanic immigrant working at a fast-food restaurant in North Carolina is rushed to the hospital after she contracts COVID-19. “There was not a moment or an instant that I stopped asking God to give me a chance to live to see my children, to hug them, to take care of them.” A growing body of evidence …

Mexico: Coronavirus pandemic ‘hasn’t stopped the disappearances’
4 years, 6 months ago

Mexico: Coronavirus pandemic ‘hasn’t stopped the disappearances’

Al Jazeera  

Families of Mexico’s disappeared say their searches have been derailed by COVID-19 lockdowns, proposed government cuts. Mexico City – Painted in large white letters on the street outside the windows of Mexico’s National Palace, is both a question and a plea: “Where are they?” About a dozen families, along with their supporters, have set up camp outside the residence of …

Mexico doc visits, supports COVID-19 survivors in free time
4 years, 6 months ago

Mexico doc visits, supports COVID-19 survivors in free time

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — When Dr. Juan Antonio Salas finishes his shifts in coronavirus wards at two Mexico City public hospitals, his work is not done. The 25-year-old lung specialist volunteers his limited free time visiting patients — a 92-year-old woman who spent nearly a month intubated and lived to tell about it; a pregnant mother who saw death all around …

Hispanics at disproportionate risk from Covid-19, health experts say
4 years, 7 months ago

Hispanics at disproportionate risk from Covid-19, health experts say

CNN  

CNN — The Hispanic community has been disproportionately hurt by the coronavirus pandemic due to their jobs as essential workers and multigenerational living conditions, according to a panel of health experts at Duke University. They have been involved in cleaning, maintenance, construction jobs,” Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, a primary care doctor and associate professor in family medicine and community health at …

For the first time, Mexico records more COVID-19 deaths in a day than the U.S.
4 years, 7 months ago

For the first time, Mexico records more COVID-19 deaths in a day than the U.S.

LA Times  

Mexican authorities sought to calm an anxious public after the nation’s coronavirus death toll grew by 1,092 on Wednesday — more than doubling the daily record and for the first time exceeding the single-day total in the United States. “This is not New York.” He hastened to clarify that many of the deaths reported Wednesday had occurred days or even …

Mexico and parts of Brazil reopen after lockdown – despite surging coronavirus cases
4 years, 7 months ago

Mexico and parts of Brazil reopen after lockdown – despite surging coronavirus cases

CNN  

CNN — Some Latin America nations are partially reopening this week, despite still recording thousands of coronavirus deaths and infections. He also dismissed the threat of coronavirus in March, calling it a “little flu.” Deaths surge in Mexico Mexico reopened several sectors of its economy on Monday, including the mining, construction and tourist industries. The country has at least 93,435 …

A pandemic's path: US hits 100K deaths
4 years, 7 months ago

A pandemic's path: US hits 100K deaths

China Daily  

Healthcare workers and nurses from Palomar Health hospital protest against the layoffs during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Escondido, California, US, May 11, 2020. "The bad news is we are not seeing a reduction in transmission, but I don't see a spike in transmission," said Gerardo Chowell, a professor of mathematical epidemiology at Georgia State University, to CNN. …

Mexico health workers demand more protection as COVID-19 toll in their ranks climbs
4 years, 7 months ago

Mexico health workers demand more protection as COVID-19 toll in their ranks climbs

LA Times  

Healthcare workers demand protective gear and training during a protest outside a public hospital in Mexico City in April 2020. An additional 8,275 cases among Mexican health workers were labeled “suspicious,” awaiting lab results. “Don’t hide reality.” The protest came after the coronavirus-related deaths this month of two staffers — Dr. Rodolfo Jiménez Sosa and Patricia Hernández Gúzman, a nurse …

The U.S. is pushing Mexico to reopen factories even as workers die of COVID-19
4 years, 8 months ago

The U.S. is pushing Mexico to reopen factories even as workers die of COVID-19

LA Times  

Even as COVID-19 deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work. “There are risks everywhere, but we don’t all stay at home for fear we are going to get in a car accident.” Pressure has also come from American corporate chief …

Mexico braces for a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths
4 years, 8 months ago

Mexico braces for a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths

LA Times  

Mexican officials warned Tuesday that the country is about to experience a major surge in coronavirus infections and deaths, as health professionals worried about overwhelmed hospitals, a prospective shortfall of doctors and a lack of medical equipment. “I don’t trust the capacity of the hospitals,” said Alejandro Macias, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Guanajuato who served as …

Mexico’s coronavirus fight has just begun. Doctors say they’re already running out of masks
4 years, 9 months ago

Mexico’s coronavirus fight has just begun. Doctors say they’re already running out of masks

LA Times  

Worshipers attend Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Guadalajara in Mexico on March 15, 2020. But within the medical community there were growing concerns that the government has moved too slowly, leaving Mexico’s public healthcare system unprepared to fight a major outbreak of the disease. Last year, the head of Mexico’s Social Security Institute stepped down and issued an unusual …

Mexico’s government under pressure over coronavirus response
4 years, 9 months ago

Mexico’s government under pressure over coronavirus response

Al Jazeera  

Mexico’s health system, already strained and underfunded, may not be equipped to cope with the pandemic. While authorities in major cities shut their borders, announced major lockdowns and ordered curfews in an effort to stem the global spread of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of people flocked to a two-day music concert in Mexico and the country’s top women’s football league …

Fears over coronavirus grip migrant camps on US-Mexico border
4 years, 9 months ago

Fears over coronavirus grip migrant camps on US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera  

Health experts race to plan for the potential arrival of COVID-19 in a makeshift refugee camp on the US-Mexico border. US President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he was “very strongly” considering closing the southern border due to COVID-19, which would have prevented many volunteer health workers from crossing the border daily to work in the camp. “Globally, …

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