The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Brigades of health workers began to apply the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines designated for citizens over age 60 in 23 Jalisco municipalities as of Tuesday, February 16.
Announcing that he has fully recovered from his bout of Covid-19, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador immediately jumped back into controversy, declaring that under no circumstance will he be wearing a face mask from now on.
Speaking this week, Mexican Deputy Health Minster Hugo Lopez-Gatell confirmed that the order in which people register for Covid-19 vaccines on the government website will have no bearing on the order in which they are inoculated.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says wearing two masks offers significantly better protection against Covid-19.
A “caravan” formed of relatives of disappeared persons passed though Guadalajara this week, in part to search for missing loved ones, but also with the aim of drawing attention to this serious problem that has plagued Mexico for around two decades.
Ahead of the beginning of Lent, on Wednesday, February 17, the Roman Catholic Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has published a note detailing how priests are to distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, a plane carrying enough active ingredient to produce two million doses of China’s CanSino Biologics Covid-19 vaccine touched down at the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City.
The federal government appears to have fixed the glitches that plagued the launch of the website set up on February 2 to register people over 60 years old for Covid-19 vaccinations.
While Christmas festivities are long over elsewhere in the world, Mexico adds a postscript to the holiday season with the February 2 celebration of the Dia de la Candelaria (Candlemas).
