The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Dozens of downtown Guadalajara merchants have placed these banners on the shuttered doors of their businesses, demanding intervention and support from local authorities.
The Jalisco state government has received a donation of personal protection equipment (PPE) to help in the battle against Covid-19 from the Chinese city of Xiamen.
Guadalajara resident Alfredo Salazar has tried to be very careful since social distancing came into play in Guadalajara, even using the optimal type of mask and at times isolating himself from family members who felt ill. Salazar, after all, is 65 years old and suffers some conditions that put him at risk of dying from Coronavirus.
Several supermarket chains, including Soriana, Fresko and La Comer, have set aside exclusive hours for seniors to shop – between 8 and 10 a.m.
Municipal workers are digging 700 additional grave sites at Guadalajara’s Panteón de Mezquitán cemetery as a backup in case the city experiences a sharp spike in Covid-19 fatalities, says Oscar Villalobos, chief of municipal services.
As the Universidad de Guadalajara continues its classes online, the institution has launched a program to get laptops and iPads into the hands of high school and university students who don’t own them.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has called on Mexican drug cartels to stop handing out packages of food and essential supplies to the country’s poorest citizens during the current health emergency.
Two weeks since the launch of Jalisco Sin Hambre, the private/state government initiative has distributed 12,000 despensas (bags of essentials) to families struggling to survive the economic collapse provoked by the Covid-19 lockdown.
Guadalajara and Zapopan city employees got to work this week, handing out hundreds of free face masks at key points of the metropolitan area as Jalisco’s obligatory stay-at-home and mask-wearing order kicked in.
