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This is INFORMATION, nothing else.
No alarmista style fear mongering!
For the majority of people this new version, COVID-19 subvariant, XBB. 1.16 aka "Arcturus", spiking at moment also in Mexico and USA (see attached screenshot 23. April 2023) should not become a issue if proper vaccinated and boostered.
However, seniors and people with weakened immune systems should consult a competent doctor and consider a second, recently approved omicron-targeted boosters.

April 24, 2023
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If the Murdocks (owner of Fox News Channel) were willing to part with three-quarters of a billion ($787 million to be exact) to keep this suit from going to trial, imagine how devastating they believed the trial would have been!
Dominion just got walk-away money 7x their worth.
Not taking the money would have been business malpractice.
The sad part: The truth on how they lie to their viewer never see the light of day.....
PLENTY of those here in expat community....
wwwizzards.com/FoxNews

April 18, 2023
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AMLO must be losing his cookies!! He is going full blaming for factual reporting!!
Mexico’s president claimed Monday that his country is safer than the United States, a week after two U.S. citizens were killed.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said U.S. travel warnings and reports of violence in Mexico were the result of a conspiracy by conservative politicians and U.S. media outlets to smear his administration.
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March 15, 2023
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On 3. March 1519, Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico with 500 troops to crush the Aztec empire.
After coming ashore, he supposedly orders his ships scuttled. Cortés believes that by eliminating the expedition's only means of escape, his men will fight harder.

March 05, 2023
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The mayor of Mazatlan on Mexico's Pacific coast, Luis Guillermo Benitez, told reporters on Saturday that tests were pending to confirm that a body found Thursday was Vazquez, but "everything indicates that it is her."
Police found the body floating in a canal in Mazatlan.
Mexican media has described Vazquez as a journalist. The Committee to Protect Journalists told Reuters it was still investigating whether she was a journalist and whether her death was motivated by her profession.

August 29, 2022
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Scientists find ‘stealth’ version of Omicron not identifiable with PCR test
Researchers fear new Covid variant could spread unnoticed because rough means of flagging up cases does not work
t.me/bajanews/514

December 07, 2021
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A week after the variant was named Omicron, the world is still scrambling to understand the true threat posed by the variant.
The first real world data showing the coronavirus variant Omicron may evade some of our immunity has been reported by scientists in South Africa.
However, they are now detecting a spike in re-infections. They have not tested each patient to prove it is Omicron, but they say the timing suggests the variant is the driving force.
bajanews.site/omicron

December 03, 2021
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According to this graphic in New York Times Baja California Sur shows a rise of 137% (This table is sorted by places with the most cases per 100,000 residents in the last seven days. Charts show change in daily averages and are each on their own scale.)
bajanews.site/MexCorona

November 25, 2021
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Cartel expert recommends tourists "DON'T GO"
Things have become so dangerous that on Wednesday, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the creation of a “tourist battalion” — 1,500 National Guard soldiers wielding automatic weapons to keep visitors safe.
bajanews.site/MexicoCrime

November 25, 2021
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Tested in Mexico and USA - U.S.-based Novavax announced the vaccine, produced using different technology than current shots had proven about 90% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 in a study of nearly 30,000 people in the U.S. and Mexico. It also worked against variants circulating in those countries at the time, it said.
bajanews.site/Novavax

November 03, 2021
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Supply-chain woes and poor logistics have left Latin America’s second-largest economy with just 39% of the population fully vaccinated, well below Argentina and Brazil, according to Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker.
t.me/bajanews/478

October 18, 2021
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Where we stand regards of vaccinations and a few other nations to compare!

August 16, 2021
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Look at the numbers.... it would not need to be that way, in particular in North America
But the freedumb fighters.......

August 16, 2021
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The Delta variant identified for the first time in India (B.1.617.2), which is considered largely responsible for the spectacular increase in cases in the Asian region and now start spreading in Europe and the USA
We will not be spared.......
bajanews.site/2021/06/covid19l

June 24, 2021
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Mexico's President loses grip on power in midterm elections marred by violence. AMLO's grip on congress slips, showing limits of his mandate.
Early results of midterm elections suggested that Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s coalition would not keep the supermajority needed to push through his ambitious agenda.
A significant decline for the president’s party!
bajanews.site/2021/06/midterm-

June 07, 2021
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AMLO is hurting Mexico - as neigbor, the USA should not ignore Mexico’s turn to authoritarianism.
The forces pushing or pulling people to leave their homes and migrate north have existed and evolved for decades. The issue has been a nightmare for American presidents to address, which, in turn, implies a horror show for Mexican and Central American governments.
bajanews.site/AMLObad

May 03, 2021
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Citing an unnamed Mexican official, Reuters news agency reported on Sunday that Lopez Obrador is expected to ask Biden to share its vaccination supply with Mexico.
According to the report, Lopez Obrador will ask the US for a loan of its vaccine supplies, to be paid back when Mexico receives deliveries of vaccines it has contracts for, expected to arrive later in the year.
bajanews.site/vaccine

March 01, 2021