The Ministry of Health (SSa) reported that, until this Wednesday, May 27, there are 8,597 COVID-19 deaths, 463 more than yesterday, and 78,023 accumulated confirmed cases, adding 3,463 in the past day and creating a new record for daily infections. Mexico’s President and Secretary of Health announced on May 6 that the peak of the...Read More

The Mexican undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, appeared this Wednesday before the leaders of the Senate to explain the strategy of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador regarding the pandemic of COVID-19 in the country, a disease that has claimed the life of more than 8,000 people. In an early meeting with members of...Read More

Dr. Jorge Téllez López, Rectos of the Centro Universitario de la Costa, of the University of Guadalajara, announced that, according to data recorded through the laboratory at the university, the SARS CoV-2 virus has spread among popular colonies and residential areas of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta. He affirmed there are some hot spots or...Read More

Intensive care units in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco are close to capacity as the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm hospitals and leaves local authorities scrambling to dig more graves. Best known for its beaches, sunshine, and cliff divers, Acapulco is fast becoming a hotspot for Mexico’s escalating COVID-19 outbreak. Public hospital beds equipped to...Read More

In order to standardize the processes and protocols for economic reactivation in both Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas, on Tuesday state and municipal authorities of Jalisco and Nayarit met with the hotel and restaurant sector in the region to establish joint strategies that contribute to the gradual reopening of the establishments. With the presence...Read More

The Carlos Slim Foundation made a donation for $30 million pesos for the strengthening, conversion, and hospital equipment in Jalisco to face the COVID-19 pandemic. “The financial support was made through the State Health Secretariat, which was in charge of the hospital reconversion that allows it to have a specialized unit for the care of...Read More

Just hours after Mexican health officials reported record numbers of deaths and new coronavirus infections, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he will resume his travel schedule next week, flying commercial to the beach destination of Cancun. Prior to the pandemic, the president, who has yet to leave Mexico on an international trip, effectively...Read More

A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms located afew hundred miles south of the coasts of southern Mexico,Guatemala, and El Salvador are associated with a trough of lowpressure. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradualdevelopment of this system and a tropical depression is likely toform late this week or over the weekend while it drifts...Read More

If you add garlic to your guacamole, we have bad news: You’re not doing it right. Do you mince the onion? That’s also a no-no. And, please, leave the avocado lumpy. So says 97-year-old Diana Kennedy, a foremost authority on traditional Mexican cuisine. Over many decades, she has mastered, documented and become fiercely protective of...Read More