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Reopening schools: the plot thickens

Mexican President Lopez Obrador has announced a “historic agreement” between the federal education system and four television networks – media giants Televisa and TV Azteca, as well as the smaller Grupo Imagen and Multimedios – to broadcast classes starting August 24 to young people homebound in the pandemic, thus discarding in-person classes for the start of the 2019-2020 school cycle.

Local universities unveil low-cost, altruistic, anti-Covid-19 creations

Guadalajara institutions of higher education – the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) and the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG), the latter in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – have made public two promising inventions aimed at ameliorating the virus pandemic.

Private Covid-19 antibody test sites mushroom

For those desiring a relatively inexpensive serological (blood) test that is not for diagnosis of Covid-19, but instead can indicate whether their body has mounted an immune response to the new coronavirus, options in the Guadalajara and Chapala area are multiplying.