The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The normally bustling streets and plazas of Mexico’s second largest city emptied this week after Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro asked everyone to stay at home for five days in a voluntary measure designed to break the spread of Covid-19 during a “critical” phase.
No patients presenting symptoms of the Covid-19 virus have sought consultation at the Hospital San Antonio (HSA) since the pandemic spread to Mexico, according the hospital’s director Jorge Alberto Calderón.
The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara (in addition to all U.S. diplomatic missions in Mexico) suspended routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa services as of March 18.
Hotels and restaurants in Guadalajara are embracing directives from the state government’s health and travel authorities, who are stepping up to the new coronavirus challenge.
The projected spike in Covid-19 cases began to be felt in Jalisco Thursday, as Health Secretary Fernando Peterson confirmed that 27 people have tested positive for the disease.
Saying that “women want to tell us something,” University of Guadalajara (UdG) Rector Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí announced that the profuse graffiti defacing the school’s flagship building from Sunday’s large demonstration will not be immediately cleaned up.
Federal authorities have frozen several Mexican bank accounts pertaining to the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo church.