The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco state government has launched a new emergency app that provides citizens in the Guadalajara metropolitan area direct notification of a range of services, including the police, firefighters, civil protection and health authorities.
The prospect of being tested for Covid-19 (by nasopharyngeal swab or blood) is only one of the many uncertainties of the pandemic, and perhaps less notoriously fearful than the quandary of whether to enter a hospital for Covid treatment (or, during a pandemic, for anything) or whether to even venture out of one’s house.
A bill permitting same-sex couples and single people to adopt children has been presented in the Jalisco Congress.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau made his first visit to the state of Jalisco last weekend, faithfully documenting his experience on his Twitter account in his accustomed manner, much like any other excited tourist.
Reforms prohibiting the physical punishment of children in the state of Jalisco entered into law this week after their publication in the Periódico Oficial del Estado (official state newspaper).
The Jalisco state government has started its annual influenza vaccination program, with the target of inoculating more than two million people.
The Jalisco State Congress has approved the new Law on Protection Against Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, which comes into force on December 18.
The now completed renovations to the Mascota-Puerto Vallarta highway have reduced the travel time between the two locations to just 75 minutes, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro and Hugo López-Gatell, the federal government’s chief coronavirus spokesperson, haven’t always seen eye to eye during the course of the pandemic, but they now agree on one thing: Jalisco appears to be on a downward trend in new Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations.
