General News

Parts of city center sealed off

Guadalajara City Hall has cordoned off various public areas in the historic center to discourage people from “recreational” activities, says Mayor Ismael del Toro.

A Tlaquepaque city councilor was shot three times while waiting with his family to take a table at La Trattoria, one of the city’s most popular Italian restaurants, located on Guadalajara’s Avenida Niños Heroes.

Rodolfo Velarde, the police officer who was set alight by a protestor during a demonstration in the city center on June 4, has been honored for his service by Guadalajara City Hall. 

The 18 people with Covid-19 who have  voluntarily isolated in the Hotel Villa Primavera on the outskirts of metropolitan Guadalajara may have indirectly avoided spreading the disease to 1,640 others, says Mario Márquez, general coordinator of epidemiology at the Guadalajara Civil Hospital.

The University of Guadalajara (UdG) will lend 2,000 pulse oximeters to patients with mild symptoms of Covid-19 who are not hospitalized, Rector Ricardo Villanueva announced.

Researchers at the Tec de Monterrey campus in  Guadalajara have developed a rapid Covid-19 test that they say will be ready for widespread use by the beginning of August.

Yes to Grito

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City will host an Independence Day parade on September 16, as well as the Grito ceremony on the previous evening, when only 500 people – in representation of the country’s 32 states – will be permitted in the capital’s huge Zocalo (main square).

The Nariz Roja charity is opening a hostel for women and children who are obliged to travel to Guadalajara for cancer treatment at the city’s public Hospital Civil.