General News

With the first Covid-19 death in Mexico confirmed Wednesday evening, the country is ready to activate its “level two” alert, federal health authorities said Thursday.

Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has sent a proposal to the State Congress that would outlaw the physical punishment of children, mandating prison terms of up to five years for violators. 

Both federal and regional authorities are implementing emergency measures and restrictions as the Covid-19 pandemic started its spread across Mexico this week.

As yet, Mexico sees no need to cancel international flights, restrict entry at its borders and ports, cancel sporting events, or advise its citizens not to travel abroad due to Covid-19, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, the deputy federal health minister, said Wednesday.

As of Tuesday evening, Jalisco has reported seven positive cases of Covid-19.  The total for Mexico stands at 93.

Mexico’s 2020 Census kicked off March 2, with a small army of 151,000 census takers fanning out to every corner of the nation to capture data that, once tabulated, will form the blueprint for the  equitable distribution of billions of pesos in public funding over the next decade.

Tickets for the symbolic “Presidential Plane Lottery” – for which the prize is actually monetary and not the unwanted luxury Dreamliner – are flying off the shelves, according to some vendors.

Daylight saving time (DST) begins in the United States and Canada on Sunday, March 8, but won’t take effect in most of Mexico for another four weeks.