Weekly Report 49

GENERAL SITUATION IN MEXICO

Weekly Review # 49 I April 7, 2021

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CONFIRMED CASES: 2,251,705

NEW CASES REPORTED: 1,247

DEATHS: 204,399

ACCUMULATED DEATHS PER DAY

SOURCE: https://www.gob.mx/salud/

DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS PER STATE DUE TO THE PANDEMIC

Information updated on April 5 2021 at 19:00 hrs local time.

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INCREASE OF CONFIRMED CASES SINCE THE FIRST REPORT MAP WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INCIDENCE RATE OF ACCUMULATED CASES OF COVID-19 BY ENTITY OF RESIDENCE.

National rate 1745.88

0 to 500 (1 states)

1,5001 to 2,000 (4 states)

501 to 1,000 (5 states)

>2,000 (9 states)

1,001 to 1,500 (13 states)

Elaborated by Prodensa with information from the Health Ministry of Mexico

PANDEMIC’S SITUATION IN THE WORLD • As of April 5 2021, globally there have been reported confirmed 131,020,967 cases (561,783 new cases) of COVID-19 and 2,850,521 deaths (8,196 new deaths*). Lethal rate: 2.2%.

• In the last 14 days, the number of new cases accounts for 6% (7,724,695) of the total of accumulated cases. *https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200323-sitrep-63-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=d97cb6dd_2

SOURCE: https://www.gob.mx/salud/

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TOWARDS THE “NEW NORMAL” INCIDENTS OF CONTAGIONS IN THE POPULATION

BY REGION AS OF APRIL 6

DEATH INCIDENTS IN POPULATION

BY REGION AS OF APRIL 6

SOURCE: https://www.gob.mx/salud/

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TOWARDS THE “NEW NORMAL”

The traffic light will be as follows:

SOURCE: https://www.gob.mx/salud/

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KEY POINTS OF PRESIDENT ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR’S Morning Press Conference March 31 –April 6, 2021

NATIONAL VACCINATION PLAN From the Mexico City airport, the director of BIRMEX, Pedro Zenteno, reported that on April 31 at 6:15 a.m., 500,000 Sputnik V and 145,275 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arrived in the country. With these doses, a total of 13,456,620 vaccines will have reached Mexico.

The President pointed out that this month the vaccination of the elderly will be achieved, at least with one dose. He mentioned that this advance will allow the most vulnerable population to be protected in the event of an increase in cases or a new strain. He reported a decrease in infections, but it is important to wait to see what situation will derive from Easter.

FUEL AND GAS PRICES Since the beginning of his government, the President pointed out that fuel prices have not increased in real terms. He stressed that the exercise carried out in the Monday conferences has helped keep prices fair, although gasoline operators still do not act with rectitude.

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxEgOKuI-n-WOJaNcisHvSg

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KEY POINTS OF PRESIDENT ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR’S Morning Press Conference March 31 –April 6, 2021

OUTSOURCING AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The President pointed out that the federal government is in the process of eliminating the existing outsourcing and limiting the privatization of the work of the authority. As an example, his administration is not handing out concessions or using Public-Private Associations for public works.

TRIP FOR VACCINE AGREEMENTS The Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, announced this Tuesday, April 6, 2021, that in the next few days, he will travel to Russia, China, India, and the United States to guarantee that the agreements that Mexico has with those nations on anti-COVID-19 vaccines are fulfilled.

The official reported that he will visit those countries because “the goal is for Mexico to have the agreed vaccines at agreed times.”

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxEgOKuI-n-WOJaNcisHvSg

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VACCINATION PROGRESS

As of April 5th,9,287,405 doses had been applied. From this, 1,174,175 have the complete scheme (2 doses).

6,852,585 elderly citizens have been vaccinated with one dose, and 476,175 have the complete scheme.

During the press conference, Dr. Hugo Lopez Gatell informed that more than 15 million vaccines had been received, of which 4 million arrived in the last two weeks and have been immediately redistributed throughout the country.

This week more doses from Pfizer arrived. The Cansino vaccine packaged in Queretaro could be released this week in approximately 400,000 doses.

Minister Marcelo Ebrard pointed out that the degree of access to vaccines in the world is becoming more complicated. However, Mexico’s strategy has been timely to have access to vaccines.

There are plans to strengthen relations to access more doses from India, Russia, Belgium, and Belgium.

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MEASURES TAKEN

BY STATES IN MEXICO

BAJA CALIFORNIA Continuing in the medium risk tier or yellow traffic light for the week of April 5th to April 11th, the State of Baja California continues to see a general decrease of Covid-19 cases, which are officially reported to be 237 active Covid-19 cases across the State. The cities of Ensenada and San Quintin have seen a small increase in cases. Hospital occupancy is at 9.35%, with 849 beds available and 236 available respirators. As of April 6th, it was confirmed that 238,476 adults over 60 years old had been vaccinated in the State. More will continue to be vaccinated in the following weeks, with the possibility of extending the vaccination campaign to other tiers. The State’s Health Secretary, Alonso Perez-Rico, expressed his concern and the inevitable third wave of Covid-19, mainly given the amount of people that visited the State during Holy Week, as it is stated that over 100,000 tourists visited the beach towns of Ensenada, Rosarito, Tijuana, and San Felipe. On other notes, political campaigns officially started on Sunday, April 4th, for the election of the new State Governor, 5 City Mayors, and seats for federal and local congress, which will take place on June 6th, 2021.

SONORA For the second week, the State of Sonora is considered in the medium risk tier or yellow traffic light, according to the Federal Government’s risk scale. As of April 6th, it was reported that there were 1,041 active Covid-19 cases in the State, with 116 hospitalized patients and 20 using respirators. There were also reported 38 new confirmed cases and 3 patients that lost their lives in the last 24 hours.

During Holy Week, several beach cities received many visitors, mainly the cities of Puerto Peñasco, Bahía de Kino, San Carlos, and Guaymas, where government officials requested Covid-19 negative tests to allow visitors to enter these cities to minimize risks. The vaccination campaign continued today in Hermosillo, Huatabampo and Cajeme, were 125,157 vaccines will be applied to adults 60 years and older. Other municipalities will also receive second doses of AstraZeneca and Cansino vaccines.

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MEASURES TAKEN

BY STATES IN MEXICO

COAHUILA Citizens of the third age of Saltillo, the capital city of Coahuila, began on April 1 the registration for the vaccination against Covid-19, as this city will be the last in the state’s vaccination plan. Since there is no date for applying the vaccine in Saltillo, the “nation’s servers” invited people to keep information on hand about their registration to continue with the process, which is to receive a call to make the appointment once the vaccine is available.

TAMAULIPAS The state government of Tamaulipas announced new dates of vaccination against Covid-19, where municipalities such as Reynosa, Tula, and Soto La Marina are added. Jose Ramon Gomez Leal, Federal Delegate, reported that from April 9 to 18, older adults from the municipalities above will be vaccinated.

NUEVO LEON During the week from March 21 to March 27, the monitoring of state health indicators for the Economic Reopening indicated that only the average number of deaths from COVID-19 is in the red or maximum risk, with 29 cases.

The lines that have been closed since March 2020 are bars and canteens, clubs and nightclubs, stadiums, concerts and festivals, sports shows, fairs, and patron saint festivities, as well as recreational pools and family gatherings of more than 20 people.

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MEASURES TAKEN

BY STATES IN MEXICO

AGUASCALIENTES Due to the mobility in the state and other tourist destinations in the country during the Easter vacations, it is practically inevitable that there will be a new rebound of Covid-19 cases in Aguascalientes. This was informed by the Governor of the state, Martin Orozco Sandoval. “There must be a minimum resurgence, undoubtedly these Holy Days there was a lot of movement, you saw how the beaches were, surely there were people from Aguascalientes, and the greater the mobility, the greater the possibility of contagion.”

However, they are trying to ensure that the effects of the outbreak are controllable and with the least possible impact so that the number of hospitalized patients or deaths does not skyrocket. “The only thing I hope is that it is something controllable and that we will see it next week, it will have to be reflected, even though last week the number of infections, hospitalization, and deaths went down, so we must prepare ourselves and not stop vaccinating”. The results will be seen during the next two weeks, added the President.

On the other hand, Orozco Sandoval informed that the arrival of a new shipment of up to 15 thousand vaccines is expected, with more than one million doses from AstraZeneca to Mexico will allow advancing with greater agility in the fol-

lowing stages of the national vaccination strategy. “In the next few days, between 12,000 and 15,000 vaccines could arrive, they are sending us between 0.85 and 1.0% of the total doses that are arriving in the country, so they will send us that,” he said. In this regard, he pointed out that the second dose will be applied in the 11 municipalities in the next few days, which will complete the inoculation schemes for adults over 60 years old.

GUANAJUATO In Guanajuato, 129,170 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed, 292 are under investigation, while 143,229 cases have been ruled out. As for community transmission, 128,968 cases have been identified, 115,920 cases of the disease have already been recovered, there are 10 thousand 586 deaths in the entity. In addition, 115,920 cases of the disease have already been recovered. At the end of the first day of vaccination in the municipality of Leon, a total of 40,925 doses were applied to the same number of seniors, and it is estimated that the inoculation process will continue for approximately the rest of the week, said the Secretary of Health, Daniel Diaz Martinez. The state official announced that due to the federal government’s logistics, there was a delay in 38 of the 43 vaccination centers.

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MEASURES TAKEN

BY STATES IN MEXICO

JALISCO So far, Jalisco has 235,913 confirmed cases of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to data from the State’s Ministry of Health.

There are 11,302 deaths due to the strain in the state. Jalisco registers 427 new cases and seven more deaths due to coronavirus. Jalisco’s Ministry of Health reported 235,913 cases of Covid-19 accumulated to date, in addition to 11,302 deaths due to the disease. 252,900 vaccines from four different laboratories: Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinovac, CanSino, and AstraZeneca will be applied for people over 60 years of age in 39 municipalities and health personnel. Through his social media, Enrique Alfaro explained that there will be 135,900 doses of the vaccine against covid-19 AstraZeneca for people over 60 in Zapopan and 32,760 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech for the second dose for people over 60 in Puerto Vallarta and medical personnel.

QUERETARO There are 141 cases of the disease in the state; 78 women and 63 men. There is a cumulative record of 62,703 cases of COVID-19; 51% are women, and 49% are men. This Monday, 306 patients were discharged from the hospital, which brings the total number of discharges to 57,687 (92%). There are 374 patients with mild symptomatology, isolation, and management at home and ten in the Medical Isolation Unit COVID-19. There are 249 hospitalized patients, 110 of whom are seriously ill, and 4,383 deaths have been recorded. Concerning the availability of general hospitalization beds and beds with ventilators in the state, there is an occupancy rate of 23 percent, based on the Negative Network of Acute Respiratory Infections (IRAG). In Queretaro, 31 percent occupancy of beds with ventilator and 20 percent occupancy of beds without a ventilator.

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MEASURES TAKEN

BY STATES IN MEXICO

STATE OF MEXICO The entity will receive one million doses that will allow most senior citizens in the state to have a first dose, informed the Governor. He also stated that the vaccination process will continue throughout the state, which will allow for the reopening of more economic activities.

CDMX The Head of Government guaranteed that 1,265,056 senior citizens who have already been vaccinated received the anti-COVID dose. Despite the nurse who did not apply a vaccine to a person, Sheinbaum affirmed that there is a strict protocol for the vaccination campaign.

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MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY GOVERNMENT, COMPANIES, AND UNIONS AGREE TO SET LIMITS TO OUTSOURCING

After three months of negotiations, the federal government reached an agreement with the private sector and labor unions to unblock its labor outsourcing reform initiative, which contemplates that outsourcing may only be used for specialized work -not part of the corporate purpose of the companies-, while limiting the payment of profits to workers to a maximum of 90 days’ salary. The legal reform contemplates granting a term of three months for its implementation and one month to implement the new National Register of Subcontracting Companies.

It is a comprehensive model that contemplates labor, tax, and social security changes, which will be sent immediately to the Chamber of Deputies to be considered in the discussion to be carried out in the next few days by the legislators for eventual approval.

In this regard, the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Luisa Maria Alcalde, stated that “the agreements reached include five aspects: the prohibition of subcontracting personnel; the regulation of the subcontracting of specialized services other than the corporate purpose and the main economic activity of the contracting company; the registration with the STPS and registration in the public registry of companies subcontracting specialized services and works; joint and several liabilities in the event of noncompliance; and the granting of a three-month term for subcontracted workers to become part of the payroll of the actual employer.

THE MAIN POINTS OF THE TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT 1. The subcontracting of personnel for tasks that are part of the corporate purpose of the company is prohibited.

2. The regulation of the subcontracting of specialized services other than the corporate purpose and the main economic activity of the contracting company is contemplated.

3. Registration with the STPS and registration in the public registry of companies subcontracting specialized services and works is contemplated.

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Joint and several liabilities of the contracting company in case of default of the subcontractor with the worker.

5. A term of three months is granted for the actual employers to incorporate the workers they had subcontracted to their payroll.

6. Two modalities are created to calculate the distribution, which will be with a limit of three months of salary or the average of the participants received in the last three years.

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GOOD NEWS

MEXICO’S FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT RUSSIA AND CHINA TO SECURE VACCINE SUPPLY

On Tuesday, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said he planned to visit Moscow and China as part of his government’s efforts to ensure that its supply agreements for vaccines against COVID-19 are honored.

Speaking at a regular government news conference alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Ebrard said the dates for his visits were still to be confirmed but that he planned to undertake them “very soon.”

SOURCE: REUTERS

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EHS

RECOMMENDATIONS ARE WE REALLY READY TO START WITH SOCIAL LIFE? Those who have been confined, detached, and strictly wearing face masks for months may feel anxious about resuming interactions with others.

As the days get warmer in the Northern Hemisphere and more vaccines are reaching more people, you might be thinking about going out to a restaurant or bar. However, the virus has not gone away; it is still there. We must continue with measures when going to restaurants or bars.

While the safest way to enjoy and support restaurants and bars is to take out food and eat it at home with people who live with you, there are ways that you can go to a restaurant and bar and still reduce your risk of getting and spreading COVID-19.

Preventive measures when going out to a restaurant or bar.

• Eat outdoors, if possible. You are less likely to get or spread COVID-19 during outdoor activities. Look for seating options outside and have proper outdoor air ventilation, such as tents that have open doors or rolledup sides.

• Wear masks at all times, both indoors and outdoors, except when you are actively eating or drinking. Masks help protect both you and those around you.

• Avoid crowds and sit at tables spaced at least 6 feet apart from people you don’t live with, both indoors and outdoors. If you are standing, stay at least 6 feet apart from those who do not live with you.

DAVID ANTUNEZ Environmental, Health, and Safety Director.

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LABOR

RECOMMENDATIONS ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS AND HEALTH MEASURES

To prevent contagion and have safe environments, in addition to implementing basic health measures and following official guidelines, companies establish additional protocols and filters that may include quarantines for traveling personnel or COVID tests for visitors.

Contact us to find out how far we can or cannot ask companies to take care of both health and privacy.

RIDING THE SOCIAL MEDIA WAVE

YOELLE ROJAS Public Affairs & Communications Director

Social media is now our main communication channel and an excellent platform for reminding the company’s shared values and mission statements.

Engaging your people in these efforts has been very beneficial to our organization, as it has allowed us to discover fresh talent and new ideas to communicate our values, messages, vision, and culture, effectively, not only internally but also to the outside. This shared pride of our work culture has led us to be one of the best companies to work for in Mexico today and to remain united despite the distance in this pandemic.

ALVARO GARCIA HR, Vice President

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Sometimes, especially during vacations or long weekends, companies, as part of their protocols, ask employees if they have traveled or gone on vacation to prevent someone exposed to public or social environments outside the workplace from following special measures. The handling of personal data and the right to privacy is an aspect to be taken care of in organizations.

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