Guadalajara during Coronavirus
There was little or no activity in the center of Guadalajara this week as most people heeded messages to stay indoors.
There was little or no activity in the center of Guadalajara this week as most people heeded messages to stay indoors.
Taxis come to abused nurses’ aid
After reports that some nurses have been the targets of discrimination by city bus drivers, around 30 taxi drivers belonging to Guadalajara’s Codigo Rojo collective decided offer them their service free of charge.
The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara (in addition to all U.S. diplomatic missions in Mexico) suspended routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa services as of March 18.
The Abastos wholesale market in Guadalajara has installed a disinfection tunnel through which everyone entering the facility is obliged to pass.
Hotels and restaurants in Guadalajara are embracing directives from the state government’s health and travel authorities, who are stepping up to the new coronavirus challenge.
The normally bustling streets and plazas of Mexico’s second largest city emptied this week after Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro asked everyone to stay at home for five days in a voluntary measure designed to break the spread of Covid-19 during a “critical” phase.
The projected spike in Covid-19 cases began to be felt in Jalisco Thursday, as Health Secretary Fernando Peterson confirmed that 27 people have tested positive for the disease.
No patients presenting symptoms of the Covid-19 virus have sought consultation at the Hospital San Antonio (HSA) since the pandemic spread to Mexico, according the hospital’s director Jorge Alberto Calderón.
Saying that “women want to tell us something,” University of Guadalajara (UdG) Rector Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí announced that the profuse graffiti defacing the school’s flagship building from Sunday’s large demonstration will not be immediately cleaned up.