Mexico plans to extend the closure of its shared border with the United States for another month to non-essential travel, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Thursday. The current agreement runs through Aug. 21, but Ebrard said it does not make sense to reopen the border at this time. “We already told the United...Read More

This August 13, day 75 of the New Normal, the general director of Epidemiology, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, reported that Mexico exceeded half a million accumulated infections. Currently, Mexico records a total of 505,751 coronavirus cases and 55,293 deaths confirmed by the virus. From the National Palace, he pointed out that there are an estimated...Read More

Residents of Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz have complained after photos showed mountains of bagged hospital waste piling up in a patio outside a government hospital. The 10-foot (3-meter) tall garbage pile outside the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines hospital has apparently been growing for a couple of weeks, according to hospital employees and residents of...Read More

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard, announced that Mexico and Argentina agreed to produce between 150 and 250 million doses of the vaccine against COVID- 19 that Astra – Zeneca and the University of Oxford developed. Through a message issued through their official accounts, the Mexican Foreign Minister stressed that...Read More