The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Since the start of the pandemic, Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 149 medical personnel in Mexico – 122 of them doctors, according to Jose Luis Alomia, the federal health ministry’s director general of epidemiology.
April saw the loss of 555,247 formal jobs in Mexico, according to data supplied by the Instituto Mexicana de Seguro Social (IMSS).
Juan Ramón Álvarez López, the director of the Preparatoria Regional de Chapala, has accused municipal police of using excess force after he was detained on the evening of Friday, May 1, at an inspection checkpoint set up near the city limits at Chapala Haciendas.
Restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada are set to expire on May 21.
A Covid-19 outbreak at the Puente Grande state penitentiary in Guadalajara accounts for just over one-tenth of all positive cases registered in the state of Jalisco.
One day after Mexico recorded its highest ever daily Covid-19 death toll (353 on May 12), President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced plans to ease restrictions and reactivate the Mexican economy by allowing some schools,businesses and industries to resume operations.
A Covid-19 outbreak at the Puente Grande state penitentiary in Guadalajara accounts for just over one-tenth of all positive cases registered in the state of Jalisco.
Many Mexicans believed the election of a leftist president in 2018 would finally temper the arrogance of Mexico’s overprivileged business elite.
Reports from Mexico City suggest that many hospitals and ICUs are becoming saturated with Covid-19 patients, with hospital bed capacity in the capital shrinking rapidly.
