The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Abastos wholesale market in Guadalajara has installed a disinfection tunnel through which everyone entering the facility is obliged to pass.
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.
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.
Federal authorities have frozen several Mexican bank accounts pertaining to the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo church.
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.
Women took to the streets of Guadalajara in unprecedented numbers Sunday, March 8 (International Women’s Day) as part of nationwide protests against femicide, gender violence and inequality.
