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A group of teachers from the radical National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) union in Mexico has prevented the country’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador from entering a building to deliver his daily press conference in the southern state of Chiapas.
According to reports, the teachers were demanding safer conditions for the start of in-person classes amid concerns over Covid, among other longstanding industrial demands. With demonstrators surrounding his car, López Obrador appeared reluctant to depart from his vehicle and walk to the building.
Trabajadores de salud, miembros de la CNTE y normalistas protestan e impiden el paso de camioneta de AMLO a instalaciones militares en Chiapas. #Video: Especial https://t.co/KqGsXKOYWL pic.twitter.com/2GUcsc5oih
#VideosLaJornada A su llegada a la séptima Región Militar, en #TuxtlaGutiérrez, #Chiapas, donde sería #LaMañanera, @lopezobrador_ se encontró con cientos de manifestantes, en su mayoría integrantes de la #CNTE, quienes lo bloquearon por más de dos horas → https://t.co/NSDf3qtCQP pic.twitter.com/9i7yDbl9SJ
Here’s a bit more related to the early data from Israel showing that people who recovered from Covid may face a significantly lower risk from the Delta Covid variant than those fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.
Bloomberg reported at the weekend on the growing concern that vaccinated people may be more vulnerable to serious illness than previously thought, with a lack of scientific studies leaving policymakers in a quagmire.