Mexico is waiving an upcoming shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from India, which is in the throes of a brutal coronavirus second wave, as 'a way of expressing our solidarity,' President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said during his daily news conference on Tuesday.
Mexico will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to adults ages 50-59 during the first week of May, with registration beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, April 28, the general director of the National Center of Preventive Programs and Disease Control, Ruy Lopez, reported during the President's morning press conference.
US drugmaker Pfizer confirms that suspect doses of its coronavirus vaccine that were seized in Mexico and Poland were indeed fake. Pfizer tested the counterfeit versions in both countries and found they did not contain the two-shot Covid-19 vaccine it developed with BioNTech.
With the aim of promoting the reactivation of the tourism sector, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Tatiana Clouthier, on Monday proposed a plan to fully vaccinate all adults in five summer vacation destinations that are popular amongst American tourists.
Mexico's 100-peso note, with nun, writer and activist Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz on one side and monarch butterflies on the other, has been named banknote of the year for 2020 by the International Bank Note Society. As issuer of the note, the Bank of Mexico beat 24 other nominees to the award.
Mexican Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal's proposed bill to regulate social media networks could severely restrict free speech in Mexico, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The bill would require companies to censor broadly defined categories of online content in violation of international norms currently in force.
Mexico aims to have the anti-Covid vaccine under development known as 'Patria' approved for emergency use by the end of this year, Maria Elena Alvarez-Buylla, head of the National Council of Science and Technology, told a regular news conference on Tuesday.
Mexico's proposal to legalize cannabis has hit a snag in the Senate, where a revised version of the bill is under consideration. The Senate Majority Leader seeks an extension to the Supreme Court's April 30 deadline and wants to pick up the debate in the legislative session that starts in September.
Mexico will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to adults over 50 at the end of April, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday. He said adults over 60 will complete their vaccinations by April 20, and officials would open vaccinations to adults ages of 50 and 59 at the end of the month.
Mexico is again the top trading partner of the United States, with two-way trade totaling $48.47 billion in February, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. exported $21 billion in goods to Mexico during February, and imported $27.47 billion from Mexico during the same period.
