THE CONTINGENCY DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
 

On March 14, 2020, at the command of the Secretary of Health, the Secretary of Public Education and the Under Secretary of Health announced that 36. 6 million students in 265,000 schools served by 2. 1 million preschool, primary, middle high school, high school, and university teachers were suspending lessons from Monday, March 23, to go back to school on Monday, April 20, and although it was not meant for teachers too, eventually they and non-essential administrative staff were also included; while at the press conference on Saturday, March 28, the Undersecretary of Health was very concerned because the social isolation has not been as expected and the "Stay at Home" campaign has not been able to be followed for many reasons, and that means that a huge part of the population lives from hand to mouth, they are all looking for a way to subsist; this is not the case for those of us who have the privilege of having a secure income, tap water, and decent housing where we can take refuge, but it is not the case for all of us. Others due to their kind of work, such as medical staff are required to work and therefore the risk for them is very high.
 

    At the beginning of the year, the world was already aware of the existence of a Coronavirus that had started in China in December 2019 and is now known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease this virus cause is called coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as identified by the World Health Organization (WHO). The signs and symptoms of COVID 19 can appear two to fourteen days after exposure and may include: fever, dry cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, tiredness, body aches, runny nose, and sore throat. The problem is not minor: as of March 29, 2020, in Baja California Sur there were 11 confirmed cases, no deaths; in Mexico, there were 993 confirmed cases and 20 deaths; in more than 200 countries in the world there were 691,589 confirmed cases and 32,910 deaths.
 

HISTORICAL-CULTURAL TOURS BEFORE CORONAVIRUS
 

It is worth remembering that the SUNDAYS OF HISTORICAL-CULTURAL TOURS FOR THE 19th AND 20th CENTURIES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF THE LA PAZ CITY-PORT have been held for almost 8 years now. We never started counting the number of tours, but they must have been around one hundred and a half. They were designed on the one hand as a methodology of teaching practice for the teaching of history with the use of photographs of ancient buildings and on-site visits, and on the other hand to carry out the cultural diffusion of the products of the city's historical research work.
 

     Two years ago, it caused me a lot of anguish to suspend the historical-cultural tours because they had been a means to learn about the history of the city and the possibility of raising awareness to defend the cultural heritage and rescue the historical memory lost or to be lost; but I had to do it because I had been detected with prostate cancer; at that precise moment I went to two very dear colleagues to tell them that I was about to suspend the tours, the one that was made for young people and adults on Sundays, and for kids on Fridays, they are DANIELA PÉREZ REYES and ALMA CASTRO RIVERA. Thanks to them, the tours continued, always mindful of my treatment, which I am infinitely grateful for.
 

     When work started at UABCS in 2020, I was recovering from a surgery I had to undergo on January 5th due to a side effect of the radiotherapy treatment that caused me stenosis. However, my colleague ALMA CASTRO RIVERA, CEDOHU's [Urban History Documentation Center] volunteer Master in Regional History, had already started to schedule the Sunday tours she would be doing in the first semester of 2020, which would finally be the following groups: : on March 1 José María Morelos y Pavón High School with teacher Patricia Mijares Ramírez and Benemérita Escuela Normal Urbana [Teacher Education School] (BENU) with teacher Rubén León, on March 8 Colegio de Estudios de Bachillerato (CEB), on March 15 Benemérita Escuela Normal Urbana [Teacher Education School] (BENU) with teacher Rubén León, on March 22 degree in Architecture students of the Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz [Technology Institute of La Paz] with architect Eugenio Santa Cruz, on March 29 with the Instituto Tecnológico de Los Cabos [Technology Institute of Los Cabos] with teacher Julio César Martínez, on 19 and 26 degree in Alternative Tourism of the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) with teacher Homero Avilés, on May 3 with degree in History students from Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) with teacher Alejandro Telechea and on May 17 with degree in Architecture students of Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz [Technology Institute of La Paz] with architect Eugenio Santa Cruz.
 

HISTORICAL-CULTURAL TOURS DURING AND AFTER CORONAVIRUS
 

Only the first three planned tours could be carried out and the rest were suspended by the Corona-virus contingency plan. As we are not attending the University, we stay at home to work and the question appears: What will happen with the historical-cultural tours if the sanitary authorities are predicting that the peak of infected and hospitalized people will be in May or June and would start to drop until August or September, regardless of whether the contingency period is maintai-ned until April 20 or prolonged?
 

     Given this uncertainty, work at home will likely have to be extended beyond 20 April, which means that the on-site tours will continue to be suspended. That is why it is good to keep the HISTORICAL CULTURAL TOUR THROUGH THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF THE LA PAZ CITY-PORT virtually on Facebook and the blog of the Urban History Documentation Centre (CEDOHU). It will be as follows: 1. Old photographs and photographs were taken during 2018, 2019, and 2020 tours will be selected;2. An account of the historical site that is visited in 16 stops during the tour will be elaborated; and 3. A photographic gallery of the tours of each of the stops on the site will be prepared.
 

     After the Coronavirus contingency, if there is no major cause that stops it, the Urban History Documentation Center plans to continue offering the HISTORICAL-CULTURAL TOUR THROUGH THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF THE CITY-PORT LA PAZ but also prepare an educational book with the material that is produced during the contingency period due to Coronavirus that works as didactic material for a workshop aimed at the training of cultural promoters who can lead the tours, not for tourists but for children, young people, and adults focused on the State Educational System to promote awareness and cultural identity and reinforce historical knowledge from the city of La Paz. The Workshop consists of attending at least 20 sessions at leastwise two hours long in which the minimum historical content that cultural promoters must know to practice it in the 16 sites that will be visited as a teaching practice during the workshop will be studied in detail during the HISTORICAL CULTURAL TOUR THROUGH THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF THE LA PAZ CITY-PORT.
 

     The presence of students from the Computer Systems degree from Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) or Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz [Technology Institute of La Paz] in the social service program "Historical Records and for History. . . " is pending, so that they can put into practice some information and communication Technologies to design some applications or web pages for cultural diffusion taking advantage of the photographs and stories of the historical sites that are visited during the historical-cultural tours.
 

     Meanwhile, there are ACCOUNTS that in each historical site that is visited during each of the 16 STATIONS of the tours that it offers to the groups that register and that will later serve for the WORKSHOP and it must be said that SUNDAYS OF THE TOUR HISTORICAL-CULTURAL FOR THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF THE LA PAZ CITY-PORT they are atten-ded since 2018 by Master in Regional History ALMA CASTRO RIVERA volunteer of Centro de Docu-mentación de Historia Urbana [Urban History Documentation Center] (CEDOHU).
 

La Paz, Baja California Sur, March 29, 2019.