General News

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.

The Jalisco Commission for Human Rights (CEDHJ) has asked state and municipal authorities to ensure that officials who detain citizens for disobeying the stay-at-home or mask-wearing orders only use the measure as a “last resort.”

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.

A study carried out by Mexico’s National Statistics Institute (Inegi) suggests that 18 percent of businesses in Jalisco have already laid off employees during the current health contingency, and a further 24 percent are considering the same measure.

Despite the health emergency, output of Mexico’s famous liquor has increased during the first three months of the year.

All being well, Mexico’s quarter of a million schools will reopen on June 1, and the annual cycle will be extended to July 17, federal Education Minister Esteban Montezuma has announced.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Covid-19 czar, Hugo López-Gatell, believe the country is well equipped to face the projected peak of the coronavirus epidemic in the first week of May.

Residents of Mexico who were not interviewed in last month’s national census have until April 30 to contact the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) and provide them with the pertinent details.