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Yes to Grito

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City will host an Independence Day parade on September 16, as well as the Grito ceremony on the previous evening, when only 500 people – in representation of the country’s 32 states – will be permitted in the capital’s huge Zocalo (main square).

The Nariz Roja charity is opening a hostel for women and children who are obliged to travel to Guadalajara for cancer treatment at the city’s public Hospital Civil.

A Tlaquepaque city councilor was shot three times while waiting with his family to take a table at La Trattoria, one of the city’s most popular Italian restaurants, located on Guadalajara’s Avenida Niños Heroes.

Plaza Andares, arguably Guadalajara’s most upmarket mall, has been forced to close some of its “common areas” for non-compliance with Covid-19 sanitary regulations.

The 18 people with Covid-19 who have  voluntarily isolated in the Hotel Villa Primavera on the outskirts of metropolitan Guadalajara may have indirectly avoided spreading the disease to 1,640 others, says Mario Márquez, general coordinator of epidemiology at the Guadalajara Civil Hospital.

The animals housed at the Guadalajara Zoo greeted human visitors for the first time in four months when doors to the sprawling facility opened on Monday.

Researchers at the Tec de Monterrey campus in  Guadalajara have developed a rapid Covid-19 test that they say will be ready for widespread use by the beginning of August.

In an effort to raise the spirits of Tapatios suffering during these challenging times, artist Maricarmen Lancaster has been active creating 24 murals throughout the Guadalajara metropolitan area featuring the optimistic slogan, “Everything will be fine.”