The Texas declaration website should be opened for loan applications within the next 24 hours. In order to get ahead of the curve and long waiting line for processing, go to www.sba.gov/disaster to complete your profile and get registered.

The City of McAllen has recently made free WiFi hot spots available throughout the city of McAllen. The McAllen Independent School District made available equipment necessary for the connection points to provide the WiFi spots.

Amid the rapidly-evolving situation regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the City of Pharr and Mayor Ambrosio Hernandez, M.D., will be providing regular updates to keep the media and the public informed as information develops.

Using his authority under the Declaration of Disaster due to a Local Health Emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez tightened prohibitions of gatherings and events to groups of 10 or more people.

The Governors of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca; Coahuila, Miguel Riquelme, and Nuevo León, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, signed joint agreements that will allow, in the immediate and short term, to cope with the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in these neighboring states.

Municipal restrictions, following a series of Executive Orders issued by Texas Governor Greg Abbott relating to COVID-19 preparedness, will go into effect in Mission at midnight.

Valley Regional Medical Center and Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville have initiated no visitor policies to safeguard their patients, staff, and physicians.

Extreme social distancing in the United States will create a recession as mass layoffs cause unemployment to exceed 10.5% nationally 45 days. Within 90 days, unemployment may rise to 14.6% nationally.

Mexican health officials reported a spike of 46 new cases of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) in one day, bringing the total to 164. Officials also revealed a possible second death, one day after a 41-year-old patient passed in Mexico City.

Hundreds of Americans are stuck in Peru after the government shut down the country’s borders (land, air, and maritime) on Monday as part of its strategy to slow the number of coronavirus infections.