Governor resists new Covid restrictions as hospitalizations rise
With Covid-19 hospitalizations increasing, the Jalisco Health Department is urging families in the state to limit their Christmas family gatherings to no more than ten persons.
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With Covid-19 hospitalizations increasing, the Jalisco Health Department is urging families in the state to limit their Christmas family gatherings to no more than ten persons.
The death toll from Covid-19 in the state of Jalisco passed the 5,000 mark on December 8, when a further 28 fatalities were reported.
Only nine of the 706 graves built in April in Guadalajara’s large Mezquitán cemetery for citizens who die from Covid-19 have been occupied, according to Alberto Martínez Armenta, the municipal director of cemeteries.
The Jalisco Health Department this week rolled out a new program to apply rapid antigen testing for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.
Thousands of women in Jalisco will have access to free pubic transportation thanks to the Cities of the Future program promoted by the British Embassy in Mexico City, and coordinated by various state agencies.
Doctors were unable to save the life of the sole survivor of the recent gas truck explosion on the Guadalajara-Tepic toll road.
All being well, students in Jalisco will be able to return to in-person classes as of January 25, 2021, Governor Enrique Alfaro announced this week.
The number of victims buried in a clandestine grave discovered in El Salto at the beginning of October has risen to 113, the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) announced in an update.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a surge in alcoholism in Jalisco, the State Council Against Addictions (CECAJ) is reporting.