Coronavirus cases in Yucatan fell by nearly 59% this week while deaths dropped to an average of 1.6 a day. Yucatán health ministry officials counted 16 cases and 11 deaths in the last seven days. Saturday’s total was one new infection and two fatalities. Nine new hospital patients were also reported, perhaps attributable to a…
After more than two years of pandemic crisis, Yucatán health ministry officials on Tuesday reported no new coronavirus cases in a single day. Moreover, zero fatalities were reported for the second time this month. And 4,000 COVID-19 tests in the public school system produced zero instances of coronavirus, state officials said. Indicating either a lag…
Yucatán’s coronavirus cases and quarantines continued to dive while fatalities leveled off and hospitalizations began a minor upward tick. State medical personnel counted 10 patients in public hospitals on Thursday compared to 15 at the beginning of the week. But since then, six more patients were admitted. The number is surprising considering the impressive drop…
While daily coronavirus infections are in the single digits, Yucatán still mandates masking in public spaces. But not so in Coahilla and Nuevo León, where cubrebocas are optional outdoors. Tabasco is considering doing the same. Yucatán has not even hinted at when it might ease up on facemask requirements, which are enforced lightly. All but…
Yucatán recorded no coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, a hopeful milestone in the state’s pandemic recovery. Almost every day since late April 2020, we’ve endured a daily death toll, except for one blip on Oct. 15 of that same year. It felt like a fluke, since nine people perished the day before. So 512 days later,…
Yucatan’s health ministry reported eight new coronavirus infections and one death. It was the lowest fatality count since early January and the first time single-digit cases were reported since early Christmas week. The declining caseload is striking when compared to late January’s when daily infections were over a thousand. Still, while officials have given Yucatán…
Just like last year, and the year before that, the great Kukulkán is preparing for his descent down Chichén Itzá’s most famous pyramid, but no adoring pilgrims will be there to see him.
Several restaurants, bars, and nightclubs have been shut down for failing to follow Yucatán’s COVID-19 guidelines.
COVID-19 cases in Yucatán plunged another 77% in a week and deaths fell from an average of eight a day to three, doctors said Saturday. New infections totaled 24 in 24 hours, the lowest number since around Christmas. Daily cases average 57 this week compared to 253 the week before. Hospitalizations have held steady for…
Mérida’s government has begun to remove the large potted plants placed along the city’s streets in Centro.
Coronavirus-related deaths in Yucatán fell by a third and infections dropped almost 9% this week, state health officials said. Saturday ended with 153 new cases, the lowest tally since early January when infections started to skyrocket. COVID-19 numbers have been up and down, but have most recently settled into a downward trajectory. That allowed the…
Yucatán is finally back in green. The federal government last Saturday put the state in the least-restrictive symbolic epidemiological traffic light. Today, the state government agreed. The dueling traffic lights created confusion, but it’s only the state’s map that matters because it’s the governor’s office and the legislature that enacts dry laws, curfews, and other…
Feeling encouraged by falling hospitalization rates and deaths from COVID-19, many communities in Yucatán are preparing for Easter festivities and events under the “new normal.”
State health department officials have detected a slight rise in Yucatán COVID-19 cases since Sunday. After an almost-steady decline in cases last week, daily infections jumped from 172 to 222 on Sunday and, more dramatically, to 361 today. But hospitalizations were still under control, down by two on Monday to a total of 59. Quarantines…
Several of Yucatán’s archaeological sites remain closed almost two years after shutting their gates to visitors at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
International tourists have been seen in increasing numbers while Yucatán’s decline in COVID infections continues. A driver confirmed that business has been way up in the last week, and more fares are from the US and Canada. Coronavirus is still much more contagious than it was two months ago, but recent weeks have seen a…
It looks like Progreso’s “Citizen Carnaval” planned for Feb. 26 will not be happening after all, at least on the Malecon.
Residents of Progreso have decided to go ahead with Carnaval celebrations on Feb 26, despite a clear rebuke from City Hall.
Human trials of Mexico’s Patria COVID-19 vaccine are beginning to deliver good news, according to the nation’s science and technology council.
COVID-19 cases in Yucatán plummeted by 49% compared with last week, official records indicate. Home quarantines are half what they were a week ago, the health department says. Since Sunday, 3,283 people in Yucatán were found to be infected with the coronavirus. That’s a high number, but nearly half the previous week when Yucatán saw…
Coronavirus cases declined 15% this week after an omicron-variant surge that began around Christmas. The last four days saw the first drop in cases since the holidays began. COVID infections were in the single digits on Dec. 19 and 20, but swelled into triple digits by Dec. 31. By Jan. 8, weekly cases were over…
Coronavirus infections in Yucatán jumped 38.7% over last week, but the number of new cases appeared to level off starting Thursday. In all, a record 7,526 new COVID-19 cases were detected by health authorities this week, who admit that the real number would be many times higher in this fourth wave of contagion. Daily deaths…
The Mexican-Argentinian singer Diego Verdaguer, 70, died Thursday night in Los Angeles, California, after losing his battle with COVID-19.
Municipal authorities in Cozumel have decided to temporarily close several streets in an attempt to slow down the spread of COVID-19.
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