Guadalajara Suspends New Year’s Eve Celebrations Due to COVID Raul Torres - El Universal
go to original December 31, 2021

Due to the increase of Covid-19 infections in the state, the government of Jalisco suspended the activities scheduled for the end of the year in the center of Guadalajara and resumed ahead of schedule the vaccination days, suspended since December 16 to give vacations to the staff.

In a brief message through his social networks, the state governor, Enrique Alfaro, indicated that the number of contagions is "stable" and it was possible to celebrate Christmas "as we have not done for a long time", but he said that this is not the time to be confident.

"That is why we have decided to cancel the event we had scheduled to celebrate the end of the year in the heart of the city. In Jalisco we have always acted prudently and made decisions in time to save lives. This cannot be the exception," he said.

The celebration, in which there would be a countdown to say goodbye to 2021, a videomaping and fireworks, would be part of the "Ilusionarte" festival, promoted by the state government and which according to the city council of Guadalajara has been attended by more than two million people since its beginning on December 6.

According to data from the state government, there are more than two thousand active cases and on December 29, 256 new infections were registered to reach an accumulated total of 401 thousand 44 cases and 17 thousand 617 deaths. In view of this situation, the vaccination campaigns suspended since December 20 until the first days of January were resumed ahead of schedule, and the booster dose for those over 60 years of age and the second doses for adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age are already being applied.

So far the return to school has not suffered any changes and it has been programmed that from Monday 3 all students will start a period of distance classes to contain possible contagions generated during the celebrations, so the on-site return to school will be until January 17.

This article was translated from Spanish using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.

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