Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday the capital will embark on a large-scale COVID-19 testing effort as the centerpiece of its plan to reopen its economy, diverging from the federal government’s strategy, which has shunned widespread testing as a waste of resources. The goal will be performing some 100,000 tests per month by July...Read More

A secret embalming center was located in a house on the outskirts of Mexico City with a couple of corpses on stretchers, one of them apparently a victim of COVID-19, authorities said Wednesday. Mariela Gutiérrez, mayor of the municipality of Tecámac, north of the capital, said that the authorities are investigating since when the illegal...Read More

The Ministry of Health (SSa) reported this Wednesday, June 10, that the accumulated COVID-19 infections are 129,184, the number the government is admitting in their daily news conference, that is 4,883 new cases today, setting a new record. Furthermore, since the beginning of the epidemic, Mexico has suffered at least 15,357 fatalities, adding 708 new...Read More

In the last 14 days, Jalisco tripled the number of active cases of COVID -19, registering an increase of 201% in that incidence for every 100,000 inhabitants. It ranks second in the country with the most accelerated growth of this indicator in that period. Despite this, Álvaro Garciarce Monraz, President of the Association of Hotels...Read More

Mexico received 78.5% fewer international tourists in April than in the same month of 2019, going from 3.6 million to slightly less than 780,000 travelers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported today. The main decrease, of 98.1%, was in tourists arriving by air, which last year represented...Read More