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Coronavirus: “For all of us to be protected, vaccination really has to be global”

The first vaccines against the coronavirus began to be applied just when the number of infections and deaths from covid - 24 shot up again in many countries. And that, along with the slowness of a process that for the moment has started especially in some of the richest countries in the world , has ended raising awareness that the end of the pandemic is clearly not around the corner. Anna Mouser, Head of Vaccine Policy and Advocacy at l Wellcome Trust -one of the most important health research NGOs in the world- nevertheless considers that, in the midst of everything, the news is good. But in an interview with BBC Mundo he also warns that if the vaccination effort is not truly global, even the vaccinated populations of the richest countries and will be threatened by n...
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Mexico confirms first case of COVID variant detected in the United Kingdom

The opinion News The new variant was found in a male of 56 years that he arrived in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas , from Mexico City Mexico confirms first case of coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom in the month of September. Photo: José Pazos / EFE By: EFE 15 from January 2021 The Secretary of Health of the state of Tamaulipas, northeast of Mexico, reported the first case of the new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2, which appeared last September in the United Kingdom and was released in early December. The head of the state agency, Gloria Molina, confirmed the new strain of the coronavirus, known as B 117, in an international traveler who arrived in Tamaulipas in the past 29 December. In a statement, Molina said that as...
The year changes, the damage in employment does not
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The year changes, the damage in employment does not

Doubts about the continuity of aid have temporarily lowered initial unemployment claims./Archive Photo : BRIDGET BENNETT / AFP / Getty Images The year 2020 was a lousy year for employment to the end. The force that COVID is gaining prevents improvements and that is not changed by the calendar. According to the Labor department in the week ending January 2 787, 000 workers applied for unemployment insurance for the first time. To this are added 161, 000 more workers who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA, according to its acronym in English. These are aid to the unemployed person who normally does not have access to this benefit program because he is an independent contractor or freelancer. It is a program created by the law to support the CARES Act ec...
Grandparents, isolated by COVID, must protect themselves from scammers
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Grandparents, isolated by COVID, must protect themselves from scammers

Scammers often call older adults at night or very early in the morning, when they are disoriented by sleep. / File Photo: Archive / Impremedia The elderly have been very isolated for months. COVID, especially hard on older people, has prevented many grandparents from seeing their grandchildren for months and that together with the emotional bond that binds them makes them easy prey in the eyes of scammers, something that has led to state attorney general to issue an alert. Prosecutor Letitia James warns of a strategy to get money through phone calls by scammers who are made passing through a grandchild in distress who urgently needs money. Sometimes, some people posing as a security or bail bond agent, perhaps a lawyer, who claim to make the call on behalf of the grandch...
The year in which the vaccine should pave the way for growth
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The year in which the vaccine should pave the way for growth

The year will change on 31 but the course will not improve until well into spring and although a notable advance is expected, it is possible that it also knows little after a year as devastating as the one we left behind We will have a pandemic in 2021 due to the lack of control of infections, hospitalizations and deaths at the end of year of the COVID, in addition to the closures of geographic areas. Although it is expected that at some point the vaccine will reach all corners, the disease will continue to be the first economic variable for months. President-elect Joe Biden said the past 22 December that the “darkest” days in the battle against COVID are “ahead of us, not behind.” How COVID is managed will be decisive in how it is rebuilt or built. Exiting the economic hole will b...