• MAJORITY: The share of Mexicans who say they know someone diagnosed with coronavirus rose sharply over the summer and now a vast majority of 70 percent say they do, according to a new poll by Mexico City’s Reforma newspaper. The number in June was 40 percent.
• CASES: The rise in the percentage of Mexicans who say they know someone who tested positive for coronavirus coincides with the explosion of reported cases in Mexico from 175,000 in June to 825,000 today making the country one of the ten most affected in the world.
• APPROVAL: At the same time, the new poll shows that the Mexican public’s satisfaction with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s management of the coronavirus pandemic has remained stable since last August with 43 percent of Mexicans approving it and 43 percent disapproving it.
• VACCINES: With regards to vaccination, 68 percent of Mexicans say they would be willing to get a coronavirus vaccine while 25 percent say they would not. Reforma’s poll was conducted via phone among 400 adults between July 30 and August 1.
