“Only 70 Days Left,” began an enthusiastic email from the U.S. Department of State received last week by citizens residing in Mexico.

Like many expats in Ajijic, Elizabeth Shepard fell in love with the area when she came to visit two years ago.

The 43 musicians in the Jalisco State Band (Banda de Musica del Estado de Jalisco) have not been idle since the start of the pandemic.

Dramatic reductions in air pollution – a so-called “silver lining” noted around the world during the coronavirus lockdowns – are evident in photos recently released by the U.S. space agency NASA.

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.

Covid-19 may have pushed the world online, but that doesn’t seem to have fazed Ajijic psychotherapist Kat Miller, who has been remotely counseling clients, such as those from her former home area near San Francisco, for a long time.