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December 22, 2020
Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social, or the Mexican Social Security Institute, (IMSS) filed a complaint against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD in the Southern District of Florida on Monday, alleging multiple claims related to bribery.
IMSS is the “main social-service agency of the Mexican government” that provides “health care services to tens of millions of Mexican citizens at hospitals that IMSS owns and operates.” Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD “specializes in generic drugs.” Teva orchestrates its Mexico distribution from “(its) Miami office,” and IMSS claimed that Teva “utilized a number of wholly-owned subsidiaries to sell its products in Mexico.”
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On November 11, 2020, the President of Mexico submitted a bill proposing the amendment of the Federal Labor Law, Social Security Law, National Workers’ Housing Fund Institute Law, Federal Tax Code, Income Tax Law, and Value Added Tax Law (the “
Presidential Bill”). In summary, the Presidential Bill intends to forbid subcontracting/general outsourcing of employees. In general, the bill can be dissected as follows:
Outsourcing/subcontracting
- Safe for the rendering of specialized services or works, the arrangements through which an individual or entity makes its own employees available for the benefit of others is prohibited.
Professional Employment Placement Agencies (PEPA)
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The Mexico City government has called for citizens to go into “total isolation” as hospitals in the capital come under intense pressure due to an increase in the hospitalization of coronavirus patients.
“Covid-19 emergency. The hospitals are at their limit. Return to total isolation,” the government said in a cell phone message sent to residents on Saturday, the day red light restrictions took effect.
“Only essential sectors are open from today. Don’t go out. No parties.”
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has blamed a recent increase of both coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the capital on people’s attendance at parties and large family gatherings.
Brazil and Mexico report spikes in COVID-19 deaths as pandemic ravages Latin America
The two largest countries in Latin America, Brazil and Mexico, have reported accelerated growth of COVID-19 infections and deaths over the past month. They are coming close to surpassing the terrible peaks recorded earlier this year.
Yesterday, Brazil recorded the sinister milestone of 7 million COVID-19 cases, reporting 68,437 new infections the second highest number in a single day since the pandemic hit the country in March. It also reported 968 deaths, the largest number since mid-September. The coronavirus death toll in Brazil is already 183,822, second only to the United States.
Finding a hospital bed can be a challenge for Covid patients in Mexico City One man s family spent 16 hours trying to find a hospital that could take him
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As hospitals in Mexico City fill up with Covid-19 patients, the cases of two men sick with the infectious disease show that finding a bed in the capital’s strained healthcare system is becoming increasingly difficult.
Tomás Hernández, a 49-year-old Mexico City resident, was turned away by 12 different hospitals before finally finding a bed, while ambulance paramedics transporting a man from a México state municipality that is part of the capital’s metropolitan area couldn’t find a healthcare facility with availability during a search that lasted more than six hours.