Yucatán health authorities tracked down 1,037 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, with the true number likely to be many times higher. It’s the first time the state has broken into four-digit territory with infections. The health department also reported seven deaths, a number that has gradually risen for two weeks. The youngest was a…
While in some parts of the United States, Omicron infections are declining, Yucatán is seeing its worst surge yet. New coronavirus infections began to rise on Christmas week, when 108 new cases were registered. Compare that to this week, when 5,425 new cases were registered by Yucatán health officials, and that’s only the infections that…
A military plane with 240,000 AstraZeneca booster doses against the new coronavirus variant arrived Friday for Mérida residents in their 40s and 50s. This age group was already offered boosters in Valladolid, Progreso and several smaller towns. Vaccination locations and hours were not announced. Residents should register on the mivacuna.salud.gob.mx website — which on Friday…
Citing an increase in demand, Frontier Airlines has announced a new flight between Houston and Cancún.
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 now appears to be the most common form of the virus in Yucatán.
Over 3,000 new coronavirus infections were reported this week in Yucatán. On Sunday alone, 652 new cases were detected, and that’s likely an undercount due to the state’s limited testing resources. The total has been breaking records daily. But while the new coronavirus variant has had infections breaking records daily in Yucatán, there’s another data…
The Ayuntamiento has confirmed that in-person events scheduled for Mérida Fest 2022 will continue as planned.
Federal health authorities are calling on adult volunteers to take part in human trials for Mexico’s Patria COVID-19 vaccine.
By Thursday, Yucatán’s easy-going restrictions under the “green” light will be no more, Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal predicts. His announcement coincides with two consecutive record-breaking days of coronavirus infections. On Wednesday, 399 new cases were reported. Although hospitalizations have been actually declining, the sheer number of patients in quarantine — now close to 3,000 —…
Three cruise ships docked in Progreso at the same time, bringing with them a combined total of 2,394 passengers and 749 crewmembers.
After a few days of slight declines, COVID-19 cases in Yucatán jumped to a record high. Yucatán coronavirus cases leaped from 269 on Monday to 394 today, health authorities announced. It was the highest daily total since Sept. 10, 2021, when 299 cases were reported. At that, the number is an undercount because of the…
Yesterday, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed that he has tested positive for COVID-19 once again.
In one week, Yucatán health officials detected 1,274 new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have nearly doubled. Daily infections have risen steadily since Monday. Another 294 cases were reported on Saturday alone. The actual number of new infections is unknown but certain to be many times higher. Public hospitals admitted 12 new COVID patients on Saturday…
A group of Canadian influencers is stranded in Cancun and along Mexico’s Caribbean coast after Sunwing refused to let them board their flight back home.
After 19 months of being closed to the public over concerns of COVID-19 infections, the archaeological site of Kabah is now open to visitors.
The new year got off to a bad start on the coronavirus front. Post-Christmas cases have jumped from 112 to 167 in a single day, Yucatán health authorities said. And since Sunday, daily COVID-19 cases are up 1,000%, according to health department data. An untold number of cases are presumed to have been missed by…
Hours before the height of Yucatán’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, the state health department sent a sobering message about the resurgence of COVID-19. Friday’s new coronavirus cases totaled 112, the first three-digit total since October, and a nearly 81% increase in 24 hours. The news follows numerous holiday celebrations combined with the arrival of a…
It has been one doozy of a year. From the ever-evolving situation with the COVID-19 pandemic to the decline and bouncing back of the tourism industry, to wacky news stories that for some reason or another caught traction in 2021.
Thirteen confirmed coronavirus cases of Omicron variant were confirmed in a brief video posted on social media by Yucatán Health Secretary Mauricio Sauri Vivas. The first such case was detected Wednesday. In the United States, the variant has been dominating caseloads for weeks. With New Year’s Eve celebrations quickly approaching, the official called on residents…
The Yucatán Ministry of Health reported the state’s first suspected case of the Omicron variant. The quick-spreading variant has likely been in Yucatán for weeks as tourists have come and gone freely over the holidays. In the United States and other countries, Omicron has spiked daily cases to historic levels while the public was primed…
Updated 6:20 p.m. Wednesday with updated data Coronavirus infections have quadrupled in a week, Yucatán health department data shows. The increase has intensified since the days approaching Christmas Eve. After two weeks of daily new infections in the single digits and teens, authorities tracked down 52 new cases Tuesday and 48 on Wednesday compared to…
The Omicron surge in the United States, Europe, and everywhere else tourists in Yucatán come from, has the Peninsula on edge. The Yucatán Peninsula is under the low-risk “green” alert, and social gatherings have returned along with crowded streets, shops and restaurants. Now the crowds have formed at places like the Salud Digna Altabrisa, where…
Approximately 400,000 people are expected to crowd the streets of Mérida’s Centro on Christmas Eve.
Coronavirus fatalities in Yucatán have been no more than one each day for more than a week, state health department data indicates. Despite an onslaught of tourists into Mérida and some beach communities, daily infections also dropped. An average of 11 new infections were detected every 24 hours, compared to 20.8 the previous week. Hospitalizations…
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