Overview
- Mexico’s health ministry reports 7,131 cumulative measles cases and 24 deaths, confirming recent first cases in Tlaxcala and Puebla to complete nationwide spread.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum and the health secretary say vaccines are available across the country, with more than 11 million doses administered during the response.
- Jalisco launched an intensified 30‑day campaign, reallocating brigades and targeting up to two million vaccinations with fixed and mobile sites across all municipalities.
- The Pan American Health Organization’s Regional Verification Commission set a virtual review for April 13 to assess Mexico’s and the United States’ measles elimination status.
- South Carolina logged 124 new cases since January 13 and warned of exposures at public sites including a Walmart, with local reports citing more than 500 people in quarantine and most cases unvaccinated.