The Guadalajara Reporter
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Twenty-one residents from the Jalisco towns of Tamazula de Gordiano and Mazamitla have died after consuming cane alcohol allegedly containing methanol, the state government has revealed. The victims all suffered loss of vision, intense pain, breathing difficulties and convulsions, reports say.
By May 15, the Jalisco state government will have worked out its strategy to exit the coronavirus health contingency lockdown, Governor Enrique Alfaro said Monday after conferring with members of his cabinet.
In an effort to efficiently combat the spread of Covid-19 infection in Jalisco, the state’s Department of Health recently partnered with the University of Guadalajara (UDG) to launch the Radar Jalisco system aimed at increasing prompt detection of persons infected with the disease and achieving a more accurate count of active cases.
Soon after Zapopan authorities posted images of municipal cops doling out bags of essential goods to local residents from the back of a police truck,
A key indicator of the pace of Covid-19 transmission in Jalisco is that 88 percent of the state’s hospital beds designated for infected patients remain unused, state health officials say.
The University of Guadalajara has opened a fourth Covid-19 testing laboratory at its campus in Puerto Vallarta, the Centro Universitario de la Costa.
Chapala curate José Octavio Moreno Olivares announced that the San Francisco Parish and all other churches and chapels in the community have closed their doors, effective April 21 through May 30 as a measure to prevent Covid-19 contagion.
Jalisco senator Clemente Castañeda has called Hugo López-Gatell, the federal government’s Covid-19 point man, “irresponsible” for suggesting there is no scientific evidence that using face masks can prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus.
While most people are fixated on the growing spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, health authorities are starting to warn the public to begin precautions to prevent infection of dengue fever, as well as other common diseases transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, such as chikungunya and zika.
