With landscapes ranging from deserts to tropical forests, Sierra Gorda is one of Mexico's top biodiversity hotspots. Martha "Pati" Ruiz Corzo moved her family there in 1984 and started a non-profit conservation group to save the region from the impact of human activity. Today, she may be its most trusted protector.
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At the current pace, it would take a decade to vaccinate all Mexicans!!
Mexico’s vaccine program sees disastrous launch.
Pace for vaccinations has slowed as government website to register crashes repeatedly and Covid-19 death toll is third highest globally.
Many countries, including Canada and EU member states, have struggled to roll out their vaccine programs but Mexico’s disastrous launch came at a particularly bad time.
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Mexico and the United States find themselves on the cusp of an unusual power transition in Washington, one that has put the future of the bilateral relationship in doubt..
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Mexico added 1,368 confirmed coronavirus fatalities on Friday, bringing the running death toll to 164,290, while new infections rose by 13,051 for total cases to date of over 1.9 million, according to updated Health Ministry figures.
The hard-hit country’s Health Ministry has acknowledged that the true number of cases and deaths attributable to COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the virus, is almost certainly much higher.
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Crushing costs of Covid care leave grieving Mexican families facing ruin.
As the death toll mounts, even for those with health insurance medical bills can run into tens of thousands of dollars
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The migrants Trump forced Mexico to stop.
The Mexican authorities had deployed the national guard to stop the caravan entering their country because Trump had threatened to increase tariffs on Mexican goods coming into the United States if they let migrants in. Previously, migrants had been allowed to traverse the length of Mexico with no problem.
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Mexico sees holiday bump in tourism amid pandemic surge.
The positivity rate on COVID-19 tests in the Quintana Roo state is nearly 50% and the weekly number of COVID-19 deaths quadrupled from the week before Christmas to the week after. There was little debate over the health risks of promoting tourism versus the economic impact of losing all those jobs, said Alejandro Palafox-Muñoz, a professor of tourism at the University of Quintana Roo.

Once Mexico has vaccinated its front-line medical workers against COVID-19, the government will turn its attention to the elderly living in its most remote places, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday.
Ten thousand brigades made up of medical personnel and health promoters with security provided by the National Guard will target 3 million senior citizens in rural areas. The plan will hinge on Mexico’s approval of the Chinese CanSino vaccine
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Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico are suspending nonessential activities due to a surge of coronavirus infections and death.
The suspension will take effect on Saturday and last through Jan. 10, Mexico’s deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell announced at a news conference.

Tired of months of confinement, Christmas shoppers have been crowding stores in Mexico City this week despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases that has strained hospitals in the capital.
The mayor of Mexico City declared a “COVID-19 emergency” last week. The city of about 9 million people has registered over 19,000 deaths related to the novel coronavirus, and a fifth of Mexico’s nearly 1.3 million confirmed cases.

Mexico’s health ministry on Monday reported 5,930 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 345 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 1,255,974 cases and 114,298 deaths.
The government says the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.

Mexican Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez Gatell said during the same news conference that Mexico aims to begin administering Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to 125,000 health workers in December, apparently scaling back an earlier plan to apply the first vaccine doses for 250,000 people by end of the year.
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Mexico’s Health Ministry on Saturday reported 11,625 new confirmed cases of #Coronavirus infection and an additional 593 fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 1,168,395 cases and 109,456 deaths.
The true number for both figures given above is almost certainly significantly higher due to the low level of testing nationwide.
Mexico’s testing rate ranks among the lowest in Latin America, with just 0.4 tests per 1,000 people
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The best and worst places to be in the Coronavirus era. Bloomberg rates 53 countries in descending order and Mexico is dead last!!!
Advanced economies like the U.S. and U.K., ranked by various pre-2020 measures as being the most prepared for a pandemic, have been repeatedly overwhelmed by infections and face a return to costly lockdowns. Meanwhile, other countries—even developing nations have defied expectations, some all but eliminating the pathogen within their borders
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Matt Rivers speaks to the family of a locally famous singer and others in the community who have experienced devastation brought on by the pandemic as cases and deaths continue to soar in Durango, Mexico.
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Mexico’s health ministry on Wednesday reported 3,918 new confirmed coronavirus infections in the country and 502 deaths, bringing the official totals to 1,015,071 cases and 99,528 dead.
Health officials have said the real number of cases is likely significantly higher than the official tally.

Over the last century, successive Mexican governments have struggled to deal with the enormous challenge of inequality. The 1917 Constitution, a product of the Mexican Revolution, was one of the world’s most progressive of the time - recognizing human rights and mandating education, housing, health and land reform.
A series of structural reforms between the 1990s and 2010s later inserted Mexico into the global economy.
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Mexico’s health ministry on Tuesday reported 5,788 additional cases of the novel #Coronavirus and 555 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 860,714 and the death toll to 86,893.

The true number for both figures given above is almost certainly significantly higher due to the low level of testing nationwide.

Mexico’s testing rate ranks among the lowest in Latin America, with just 0.4 tests per 1,000 people

Marigolds, known in Mexico as "the flower of the dead" for a scent believed be strong and sweet enough to attract souls and draw them back, are generally all around by mid-October as the Day of the Dead approaches.
But with the country exceeding 85,700 official deaths from the coronavirus pandemic this year, the bright, orange color has not been as prominent as Mexican authorities have said cemeteries will remain closed for the Nov. 2 celebration.