Price increase in Baja California for licenses, plates, circulation cards and water

This 2021 comes with increases in costs of official documents for Mexicans. A few days ago the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) reported that the price of passports would rise throughout Mexico. However, there will also be increases in other services at the state and municipal level. These increases have to do with the cost […]

January 4, 2021 at 12:46 PM PST

Woman murders her two children and then attempts suicide

A woman was arrested for murdering her two children, a 9 year old boy and a 4 year old girl, who were suffocated with a pillow while sleeping. The mother later tried to take her own life, but the children's father arrived before she could do so, reporting the crime to the authorities. The man […]

January 3, 2021 at 10:00 PM PST

In Texas, 150 migrants were found hiding in a truck

The U.S. newspaper "El Nuevo Herald" reported the arrest of 150 people hiding inside a truck in Laredo, Texas, on December 30, 2020. The vehicle was intercepted by members of the Border Patrol who, upon scanning it, detected several irregularities in it, which forced them to request a second inspection of the cargo. It was […]

January 3, 2021 at 8:19 PM PST

Prices for Mexican passports increase

2021 arrived and with this new year also comes an increase in the cost of Mexican passports, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) through its social media. This increase will be reflected as of January 1, 2021, that is, it is already in effect. Discounts for people over 60 years old or with […]

January 3, 2021 at 2:55 PM PST

6,107 tons of garbage accumulated in Tijuana during the holidays

From the official website of the City of Tijuana it was reported that during the festivities the garbage collection service continued to be active and that during the Christmas-New Year period 6,107 tons of garbage were removed throughout the city. According to the director of Municipal Public Services of Tijuana, 80% of the team in […]

January 3, 2021 at 12:10 PM PST

21 businesses were fined in Tijuana for not complying with sanitary protocols

During the weekend, Tijuana authorities were forced to close three established businesses and apply 18 fines for not complying with sanitary protocols that aim to prevent chains of transmission. According to Adolfo García Dworak, head of Municipal Inspection and Verification, among the businesses that closed were an OXXO convenience store at the Hipódromo neighborhood and […]

January 3, 2021 at 11:36 AM PST

New strain of COVID-19 has not yet arrived in Baja California: Secretary of Health

The confirmation of the arrival of the new strain of coronavirus in San Diego, California in the United States was reported last December 30th through this news site. Due to the proximity of Baja California and this American city, this morning the Secretary of Health of the Mexican State, Alonso Pérez Rico, was asked if […]

January 2, 2021 at 1:39 PM PST

IMSS hospitals in Baja California show decrease in hospital occupation due to coronavirus

Hospitals serving patients with COVID-19 in Baja California received a 70.75 percent occupancy rate in 2021, with 603 people hospitalized and 174 intubated. In addition to the availability of 221 beds and 132 ventilators However, the state's Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospitals reported a decrease in occupancy, which so far is 59 percent. They […]

January 2, 2021 at 12:16 PM PST

Today Tijuana surpasses Mexicali in new and active COVID-19 cases

In the last four days the active COVID-19 cases in Baja California have been increasing, going from 868 to 972 this Saturday, according to the presentation of the Health Secretary Alonso Pérez Rico in his daily report. Unlike previous days, this time "Mexicali is the only large municipality in our state that is decreasing in […]

January 2, 2021 at 11:34 AM PST

January will be a difficult month for the Red Cross because of COVID-19 in Tijuana

The outlook does not seem promising for the COVID-19 pandemic, health and emergency services during January 2021. The director of the Tijuana Red Cross, Alberto Quintanar, indicated that "this month of January is going to be complicated," referring to the high demand for ambulances and cases attended to in their hospitals during December. The institution […]

January 1, 2021 at 7:23 PM PST

IMSS pediatrician resigns after questionable lobbying of vaccination

More and more cases are being reported of people who are not on the first front dealing directly with COVID-19, and yet are being vaccinated, leaving other health workers unprotected who risk their lives and are ignored. The case of Dr. Ana Paola de Cosío Farías, pediatrician and endocrinologist assigned to the Covid area of […]

January 1, 2021 at 5:46 PM PST

Tijuana ends 2020 with 2 thousand homicides

The violence in Tijuana continues to be present. According to the State Attorney General's Office, the city counted a total of 2 thousand murders in 2020. In December alone, there were 161 deaths and six of these occurred on Christmas night. With these numbers, Tijuana continues to be one of the most violent municipalities in […]

January 1, 2021 at 1:44 PM PST

Mexico considers holding a referendum to decriminalize abortion

Twenty-four hours after abortion was legalized in Argentina, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, proposed in the last morning conference of the year, the possibility of decriminalizing abortion through a popular consultation that should be carried out to Mexican women so that they can finally make this decision. According to the Mexican Constitution, […]

December 31, 2020 at 2:36 PM PST

Rapid tests for COVID-19 in Baja California do not help if you are asymptomatic

Health Secretary Alonso Pérez Rico, reported last Tuesday during his daily report that rapid tests have begun to be used to detect COVID-19 in Baja California. He said they give results in as little as 30 minutes, which is faster than PCR tests that give results within 24 to 48 hours. However, this morning Pérez […]

December 31, 2020 at 1:30 PM PST

Sanitary filters resume at Baja California border crossings this Thursday

As it happened on Christmas Day, Christmas Eve and other festivities, the Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego announced that sanitary filters will be imposed at the Calexico-Mexicali border crossing, so they are asking that only people who must make essential trips enter the country. The filters will remain from December 31st, at 2 […]

December 31, 2020 at 1:17 PM PST

Mexicali returns to the top 20 municipalities with more active cases in Mexico

Mexicali closes 2020 with an unpleasant context due to the COVID-19 pandemic, since this municipality returned to the top 20 of Mexico's municipalities with the most active cases, after ranking 18th. As of this Thursday morning, the state capital has 349 active cases of the 867 registered in Baja California. In addition, the incidence rate […]

December 31, 2020 at 12:12 PM PST

Tijuana has more hospitalized patients than all of Mexicali and Ensenada combined

The hospital occupation registered until this Wednesday by COVID-19 is 74.64 percent, with 235 beds and 132 ventilators available, and a total of 588 patients hospitalized because of this disease, as well as 208 intubated. According to the head of the Ministry of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, the hospital occupancy rate in hospitals that attend […]

December 30, 2020 at 2:39 PM PST

Baja California registers 627 new cases for COVID-19; 318 belong to Tijuana

Before starting with his report, Baja California's Health Secretary, Alonso Pérez Rico, informed this Wednesday that the state received more than 11 thousand tests of antigens, which they started using three days ago in the fever clinics, which allow them to give the results on COVID-19 in 30 minutes. As he explained, these rapid tests […]

December 30, 2020 at 1:34 PM PST

This Thursday will be the coldest day of the week for Tijuana

Today, the Civil Protection of Tijuana communicated through its social networks how the weather conditions will be in our city in the following days and reported that it will be mostly clear, but some days will be very cold. From today until Sunday we will have dry and clear weather, some possible winds for Thursday […]

December 30, 2020 at 1:03 PM PST

Mexico, responsible for 25% of COVID-19 deaths in Latin America

The pandemic has hit the whole world hard and what at first seemed to be a passing thing has become a reality that we have to learn to live with, at least for a while longer. Latin America is one of the regions that has been most affected by the coronavirus, as no country was […]

December 29, 2020 at 11:28 PM PST