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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tijuana-Tecate Interurban Train on its way to become a reality

Through the YouTube channel of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Urban Development and Territorial Reorganization (SIDURT) of Baja California, it was reported that the company Citcocomex Group S. De R.L. de C.V. will operate the Tijuana-Tecate Interurban train project. "I wish to inform you that since Citcocomex Group S. De R.L. de C.V. complies and does […]

December 29, 2020

Tijuana and San Diego Mayors agree on entry booths to remain restricted

According to the official website of the Tijuana City Council, the municipal president, Arturo González Cruz, met virtually with the new mayor of San Diego, Todd Gloria to discuss plans for economic recovery and the reopening of booths. According to Mayor González Cruz, Tijuana has been very affected by the arrival of the pandemic, however, […]

December 29, 2020

Baja California accumulates more than 32 thousand positive cases of COVID-19

According to the report presented this Tuesday by the head of the Baja California Health Department, Alonso Pérez Rico, 29 new deaths from COVID-19 were recently registered in the state (19 in Mexicali), as well as 177 new cases (87 in Tijuana). These figures add up to an accumulated 32 thousand 373 positive cases, of […]

December 29, 2020

A week without swap meets in these Tijuana neighborhoods

As every Tuesday, the Secretary of Health of Baja California, Alonso Pérez Rico, announced the neighborhoods in Tijuana where active cases of COVID-19 are concentrated. As of this morning, there are 682 active cases in the state, of which 210 belong to the border city. According to Pérez Rico, 20 percent of the colonies in […]

December 29, 2020

Baja California presents a decrease in active COVID-19 cases

Baja California continues this week to be red-lighted by COVID-19, and it appears that the restrictions have brought about a small decrease in active cases in the region. According to Health Secretary Alonso Pérez Rico, as of Monday the active cases totaled 772, with a decrease observed in all municipalities and only San Felipe remaining […]

December 28, 2020

The logistics to apply anti-covid vaccine in Baja California will begin next week

According to Baja California's Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, they will begin with the logistics to apply the COVID-19 vaccine in Baja California next week. Without providing details, the secretary only mentioned that the first to receive the vaccine will be "the resident doctors, emergency doctors, internists, general practitioners; who are literally attending to […]

December 28, 2020

Hospital General de Tijuana registers an occupation of 95% because of COVID-19

As part of his daily report, this Monday, Health Secretary Alonso Pérez Rico, reported that hospital occupancy in Baja California decreased to 77 percent, and there are 122 beds available and 119 ventilators. "It decreased because of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), they are reporting that they have less than 70 percent hospital […]

December 28, 2020

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir Park and Constitución will be closed again

Through their Facebook accounts, the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park and the 1857 Constitutión National Park, both located in Baja California, announced their temporary closure due to the change of color to red of the COVID-19 epidemiological traffic light chart in the state. These parks have been closed since December 14, and according […]

December 28, 2020

Snowfall expected in Baja California

The drop in temperatures in Tijuana, Baja California, will cause snowfalls in high areas, which will be derived from the low temperatures we will have during this week's start in the northwestern part of the country. Salvador Cervantes, State Coordinator of Civil Protection, said this morning that the rain forecast that began Sunday night and […]

December 27, 2020

Cell phone containing fentanyl pills found in Tijuana

The National Guard (GN) was conducting a routine inspection of a delivery company's warehouse when the discovery was made in the city of Tijuana, Baja California. The animal reported the discovery to his superiors and once they were sure, the military opened the package and observed a cell phone inside, which upon opening contained Fentanyl […]

December 27, 2020

Professor of the Faculty of Dentistry of the UABC awarded abroad

Fabián Ocampo Acosta is a professor at the UABC School of Dentistry at the Tijuana campus and has also just received recognition for presenting his paper "Myofibroblasts in odontogenic cyst and tumors. Stromal interaction and its role in aggressive behavior of these entities'' in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The organization in charge of this […]

December 27, 2020