The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Ahead of the beginning of Lent, on Wednesday, February 17, the Roman Catholic Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has published a note detailing how priests are to distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday.
The federal government appears to have fixed the glitches that plagued the launch of the website set up on February 2 to register people over 60 years old for Covid-19 vaccinations.
While Christmas festivities are long over elsewhere in the world, Mexico adds a postscript to the holiday season with the February 2 celebration of the Dia de la Candelaria (Candlemas).
Speaking this week, Mexican Deputy Health Minster Hugo Lopez-Gatell confirmed that the order in which people register for Covid-19 vaccines on the government website will have no bearing on the order in which they are inoculated.
All adults over age 60 in Mexico who want to receive a free vaccination against Covid-19 can register online, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell announced Tuesday.
A “caravan” formed of relatives of disappeared persons passed though Guadalajara this week, in part to search for missing loved ones, but also with the aim of drawing attention to this serious problem that has plagued Mexico for around two decades.
Canadian tourism to Mexico looks set to come to a standstill, at least until the end of April, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced strict new anti-coronavirus measures for travelers last week.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, a plane carrying enough active ingredient to produce two million doses of China’s CanSino Biologics Covid-19 vaccine touched down at the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City.
The health of Covid-19-infected President Andrés Manuel López Obradoris “evolving favorably,” Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell reported Thursday.