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Mexico City, Jul 20 (EFE).- The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico is having its greatest impact among middle-aged people and individuals who have not been vaccinated, the government said Tuesday.Mexico detected 68,637 new infections last week, an increase of more than 36 percent over the previous week that brought the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 2.66 million.Covid-19 has claimed more than 236,000 lives in Mexico, a death toll exceeded by only the United States, Brazil and India. (Camera: MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRADE). SHOT LIST: MEXICO'S DEPUTY HEALTH SECRETARY, HUGO LOPEZ-GATELL, SPEAKS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.SOUND BITES: HUGO LOPEZ-GATELL, MEXICO'S DEPUTY HEALTH SECRETARY (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: 1. The majority of the people hospitalized for Covid at this moment are people under 52 and an enormous majority are people who weren't vaccinated, this is 97 percent.2. We have a society already long tired - fatigued - of having these long months of epidemic. What one can ask of society in terms of reduction of mobility is not the same today as it was in February 2020.
Cancun, Mexico, Mar 28 (EFE).- Tourist destinations in Quintana Roo, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, are operating at 60 percent of their capacity but expect to welcome at least 600,000 tourists within the next two weeks of vacation despite fears of a new spike in the Covid-19 pandemic.The arrival of national and international travelers has alerted local authorities, who are keeping the open-door policy in place with an eye toward reactivating the economy despite acknowledging the up to 200 percent increase in confirmed coronavirus cases in towns like Isla Mujeres and Felipe Carrillo Puerto.(Camera: LOURDES CRUZ)SHOT LIST: TOURISTS IN CANCUN, MEXICO.
Mexico City, Jul 16 (EFE).- (Camera: América Neri) The Mexican youth is the most affected group in the third coronavirus wave sweeping across the country, as infections increase but the number of seriously ill and hospitalized patients drops.FOOTAGE OF YOUNG PEOPLE LINING UP AT TESTING CENTRES IN MEXICO CITY
La Paz, Jul 3 (EFE).- The Mexican state of Baja California Sur, which is home to the important tourist center of Los Cabos, has been suffering its highest spike of covid-19 infections since the beginning of the pandemic and is setting off alarm bells of the third wave of infections in Mexico.With more than 2,701 active cases, 1,698 deaths and some 300 daily infections, Baja California Sur has already surpassed its peak in January, forcing the state government to impose certain health restrictions. (Camera: MAHATMA FONG).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF LA PAZ IN THE STATE OF BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
Bangkok / Manila / Hanoi / Jakarta, Sep 15 (EFE/EPA).- In its worst wave of the pandemic, Southeast Asia has resigned itself to living with Covid-19 and is committed to relaxing restrictions to revive the ailing economy and give its exhausted population a break.Countries such as Vietnam, Thailand or Malaysia, which kept Covid-19 low in 2020, have been facing an exponential increase in cases for months due to the contagious delta variant, originally detected in India. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE COVID-19 SITUATIONS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND; MANILA, PHILIPPINES; HANOI, VIETNAM AND JAKARTA, INDONESIA.
Guachochi, Sep 11 (EFE).- In the impoverished Sierra Tarahumara region of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, many children and young people were on the verge of dropping out of school during the pandemic due to lack of resources just like around 250,000 children in Mexico, according to recent report, making it easier for them to be attracted to drug trafficking.For a year and a half -from March 2020 until the end of August- Mexico kept schools closed and long-distance classes were offered -through television, radio and internet- to more than 33 million students of all levels. (Camera: RAUL MORALES).B-ROLL OF MEXICAN STUDENTS LEARNING AT SCHOOL IN GUACHOCHI, CHIHUAHUA STATE, MEXICO.
Mexico City, Aug 19 (EFE).- Mexico has reached and exceeded the grim milestone of 250,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths even as the country has eclipsed its previous record high for number of daily cases amid a third wave of the pandemic.(CAMERA:América Neri)
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