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Nearly a year after the coronavirus forced Nadley Morales into a harsh and lonely isolation, public health officials showed up on her door-step in one of Tijuana’s upscale neighborhoods.
It took the researchers almost 15 minutes just to persuade the 61-year-old to open the door so her son could get a COVID-19 test. “And with good reason,” she later said, given Tijuana’s high rate of positive tests and high death rate from the disease, and her own diabetes.
Scientists and students from the Autonomous University of Baja California began ringing Baja doorbells on Feb. 1, offering free COVID-19 testing as part of a research study to better understand the infection rates of a disease that moves freely between borders.
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Cholula, Puebla, has been designated a magical town by Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism, and it’s easy to see why.
There’s Tlachihualtepetl which, by volume, is the world’s largest pyramid. There’s also its adjacent archaeological site. There’s Avenida Morelos with its colorfully painted stores selling locally made crafts. There’s the
zócalo, which features a dozen or so restaurants.
In normal times, it’s a major tourist site. But these are anything but normal times.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic tourism has fallen off dramatically, and on December 29, Puebla Governor Luís Miguel Barbosa announced a closure of all nonessential businesses because of the “exponential growth” in the number of infections and hospitalizations. The lockdown was initially scheduled to end January 11, but as the number of Covid-19 infections continues to climb, it has been extended at least until January 25.