Information from Press Conferences and Official Media

Federal Information

(July 28, 2020)

Secretary of Health

- It has been commented that comorbidities (mainly diabetes, hypertension, obesity and cardiovascular disease) are making a considerable contribution to COVID-19 mortality. a considerable contribution to COVID-19 mortality. Of every 100 people who die from COVID-19, the 73% had a comorbidity.

- Undersecretary Lopez-Gatell has reiterated that so far the vaccine review process for COVID-19 continues without any relevant progress and that if further news on this is available, it will be communicated to the population in the different and that in the event that further news on this matter is available, it will be communicated to the population in the different information dissemination information dissemination spaces that the health authorities already have.

- The Secretary of Health has published the Criteria for vulnerable populations that may develop a complication or die from COVID-19 in the reopening of economic activities in the workplace. or die from COVID-19 in the reopening of economic activities in workplaces.

Find the published document here: https://bit.ly/2CLYAqw

State Information

(July 28, 2020)

Secretary of Health

- The Secretary of Health has commented that they will seek to generate a strategy to visit people in communities to check that they do not have COVID-19. have COVID-19.

- It has also been commented that there is no scientific evidence that rainfall is positive in reducing the virus in the environment or something like that.

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Economic Situation

Financial indicators

Main economic news

(July 28, 2020)

- COVID-19 'sickens' incomes; in-work poverty reaches more than half of the population: Coneval. population: Coneval. The council estimated that the percentage of income-poor people reached 53.1% in April, while by May the proportion climbed to 53.1%. reached 53.1% in April, while by May the proportion climbed to 54.9% (El Financiero). 54.9% (El Financiero). https://bit.ly/3g7v50D

- Prodecon bets on digital services in the face of budget cuts. Twenty of the 30 of the 30 delegations that existed in the republic have been closed, making it difficult to serve to the user (El Economista). https://bit.ly/3g7fVZp

- Affiliation to the IMSS, unattractive for self-employed workers: experts. They point out that for a self-employed professional it may be more profitable to acquire a tax-deductible retirement insurance policy. to acquire retirement insurance as it is tax-deductible (El Economista). Economist). https://bit.ly/3g8nM8Y

World News

- 40 countries record daily coronavirus case records. The pandemic pandemic continues to accelerate, with the number of cases doubling in the last six weeks, warned Tedros Adhanom the last six weeks, warned Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). World Health Organization (WHO). https://bit.ly/2DbcWAn

- Temporary, low-paying jobs, the 'low blow' to our immune system to COVID-19. Society's refusal to grant the low-paid and underemployed the same protections it offers to the well-off is the underemployed the same protections it offers to the affluent is the comorbidity that is killing us. comorbidity that is killing us. https://bit.ly/30XpHH5

- Madrid makes the use of masks mandatory in all public spaces. The regional government of Madrid is making it compulsory to wear face masks in all public areas, limiting the number of people face masks in all public areas, limiting the number of people who can gather in one place and targeting people who can gather in one place and targeting young people in an attempt to eradicate further outbreaks of the eradicate further outbreaks of the coronavirus. https://bit.ly/3hICHqD

- Vietnam evacuates tourist city due to 'more infectious' COVID-19 outbreak. The evacuation came after three residents of the city tested positive for the positive for coronavirus, according to the Vietnamese government. https://bit.ly/2P5bfY1