The ongoing omicron-fueled wave in neighboring Sonora has cast uncertainty on one of the state’s most important events.
The normally annual ExpoGan — which lasts for several weeks and features major musical acts, rodeo competitions and teeming crowds — has not been held since the pandemic arrived in Sonora in 2020. Whether it’s entirely canceled for a third year appears to now be up in the air.
In a Friday interview with the Sonoran outlet Proyecto Puente, Hector Platt, head of the state’s regional cattle union, said that the livestock exhibitions and other cattle industry elements are going ahead.
Asked if there was still the possibility of the mass events going forward, Platt said that there was but that it would require the official coronavirus scale falling to green, or low-risk. The state is currently at orange, or high risk, and experiencing its highest daily cases of the pandemic.
Later on Friday, the union’s Jesus Ancheta told KJZZ News that this year the event would be limited to just cattle auctions and other similar events from late April through early May.
