Officials reinforced Jalisco Health Board rules in the municipality and within the City Hall itself
Upon entering the facilities of the Municipal Presidency, the sanitation protocol is carried out.
Jazmín Stengel – Chapala City Hall has registered 46 new positive cases, which totals 52 infected workers since January 3 to date, so it has decided to reinforce the sanitation measures recommended by the Jalisco Health Board in order to reduce the number of infections , the t Chapala President Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel announced.
Of the recent positive cases, 16 were recorded in the Public Safety Department and all have mild or moderate symptoms, said Elizabeth Oropeza, director of Social Communication.
President Aguirre Curiel said that «the infected have not been enough to restrict working hours, so the City Hall continues working in a regular manner», Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., while the first level officials are at the service of the community 24 hours a day.
Likewise, the recommended health measures have already been intensified, both in the municipality and within the City Hall, including immediate isolation when the first symptoms are identified, keeping a healthy distance, and the use of masks and proper disinfection inside poorly ventilated places.
The government health agencies have also made available to the community the Covid-19 testing service (antigens and antibodies), at the Municipal Clinic with a cost per test of 200 pesos, confirmed Aguirre Curiel, while at the Health Center they are offered free of charge, said its director, José de Jesús González Rodríguez thanks to an agreement signed by the Government of Chapala with the private laboratory ‘El Lago’, which performs the tests for its workers and residents who request them. To make use of this service it is only required to go to the facilities during working hours with the patient’s official identification.
Another of the preventive measures taken is the placement of banners that reiterate to visitors and the general public the health measures in force. Two of them have already been hung, the first one at the 7-Eleven at the entrance to the center of the town and the other at one at the busiest entrances of Ajijic where most tourists usually arrive.
Tourist areas, restaurants , bars, cantinas and casinos in Chapala and Ajijic, will now be monitored by the corresponding agencies to ensure compliance with sanitation measures, as well as to confirm the negative certification of their ‘Polymerase Chain Reaction’ (PCR) tests.
The inspections are also «in charge of verifying the percentage of diners in each establishment, as well as the sanitation measures recommended by the Jalisco Health Agency», said president Alejandro Aguirre in an interview. Chapala has registered a total of 919 cases to date, according to Radar Jalisco Covid-19.
Aguirre Curiel also said that «we have tried to be very prudent in this situation (large events and celebrations)» «We are going to begin to control these types of events to avoid contagions.» However the ‘Coffee, Chocolate and Wine Festival’ held on the Ajijic boardwalk on January 8 and 9 seemed to contradict this position. It had close to 50 exhibitors and few requirements regarding the use of masks or temperature takers, as Laguna witnessed during the event.
However, the public celebrations of New Year’s Eve, in front of the presidency and the Malecon of Chapala, the novenario of San Sebastian in Ajijic and the festivities of the Lourdes neighborhood in the municipal capital, were cancelled, and the delegate elections I will be suspended until the incidence of coronavirus infections in the municipality decreases, said the president Alejandro Aguirre Curiel.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
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