Due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, Phase 0 of the Jalisco Plan for Economic Reactivation has been extended until June 15. This means only businesses that have already met government requirements can open and #StayAtHome orders stand.
Governor Alfaro Ramírez met with health experts on Wednesday to assess the Covid-19 pandemic in Jalisco and review transmission projections as the state looks to start gradually reopening on June 1. The conclusions and measures adopted by authorities will be announced on Friday.
On May 22, the Jalisco State Congress approved a loan for 6.2 billion pesos, which will be used to carry out infrastructure projects and finance support programs for the economic reactivation of the entity after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Archaeologists have found the remains of more than 60 mammoths at the site of the new airport that is being built to serve Mexico City. Estimated to be more than 15,000 years old, the giant skeletons are believed to belong to the Colombian mammoth species.
After a video showing a man trying to lasso a Bengal tiger on the streets of Guadalajara was published on social networks last week, the Federal Attorney of Mexico's environmental protection agency, Profepa, began an investigation that ended with the seizure of two animals.
On Tuesday, Sello Rojo and ranchers from Los Altos de Jalisco introduced 'One Million Liters, One Million Thanks,' an initiative that will deliver milk to those who need it most through the Government of Jalisco and the #JaliscoSinHambre program.
Mexico's Velas Resorts and sister company VHealthy, a Mexican provider of certified medical equipment, join forces in the fight against COVID-19 by donating 20,000 face masks to hospitals and organizations in Puerto Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit, Los Cabos and Riviera Maya.
In a bid to stop the healthcare system in Mexico City from becoming overwhelmed, the paddock club area of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is being transformed into a makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients. The temporary hospital is expected to open next week.
As the country faces another month of quarantine, a new crisis looms on the horizon: Mexico is running out of beer. The government closure of breweries in April has caused shortages in convenience stores, which are seeing income plummet by as much as 40 percent.
A consortium of companies controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim has won the competition to build the second section of the Mexican government's ambitious Mayan Train project, Mexico's tourist development agency Fonatur announced with great fanfare last week.
