The Guadalajara Reporter
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The Jalisco state government has started its annual influenza vaccination program, with the target of inoculating more than two million people.
The now completed renovations to the Mascota-Puerto Vallarta highway have reduced the travel time between the two locations to just 75 minutes, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said this week.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro and Hugo López-Gatell, the federal government’s chief coronavirus spokesperson, haven’t always seen eye to eye during the course of the pandemic, but they now agree on one thing: Jalisco appears to be on a downward trend in new Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations.
A bill permitting same-sex couples and single people to adopt children has been presented in the Jalisco Congress.
Jalisco government health officials believe the state is on the cusp of moving from the high risk category (orange on the epidemic traffic light monitoring system) to medium risk (yellow).
Reforms prohibiting the physical punishment of children in the state of Jalisco entered into law this week after their publication in the Periódico Oficial del Estado (official state newspaper).
Federal funds allocated for Jalisco in 2021 will shrink by 4.6 percent, a move that represents “a harsh blow” for this state, Governor Enrique Alfaro said.
The Jalisco State Congress has approved the new Law on Protection Against Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, which comes into force on December 18.
While the coronavirus pandemic should be taken very seriously, there are various reasons for optimism that the situation in Jalisco is at least stable and not spiralling out of control.