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Paraguay's health officials confirmed Monday the country's first three cases of the Omicron variant after three vaccinated 18-year-old boys returned from vacationing in Cancún on December 17.
Mexico is not planning to introduce any travel restrictions to limit the spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, officials say.
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As the Delta variant of the COVID virus sweeps through Mexico's cities, more adults in their 30s and 40s are ending up in the hospital with polls showing vaccine hesitancy is rising in younger age groups.
681shares The federal government has launched an online platform where people aged 60 and over can register their details in order to be vaccinated against Covid-19. César Vélez, the government’s information technology chief, said Tuesday that the platform – mivacuna.salud.gob.mx – is intended to register seniors who live in medium-sized and large cities. (The website was not functional on Tuesday as several attempts to reach it were unsuccessful.) Vélez explained the online registration process at the government’s morning news conference and stressed that the data collected by the...
Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation There's hardly a Mexican who doesn't know Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez by now. Mexico's undersecretary of prevention and health promotion has sat across from reporters at 7 p.m. sharp almost every single night since late February to update them, and the country, on the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. His firm demeanor, careful speech, and courteous personality have made his televised coronavirus press briefings even more popular than those of the country's president. But as COVID-19 deaths in M...