In six short months, the lakeside area’s real estate market has gone from boom to bust, a collateral victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro announced the creation of a fund of 20 million pesos  to support 2,500 artists in the state whose livelihoods have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hotels, beaches, waterfront boardwalks, spas and other prime tourism locations in Chapala were closed to the public as of Thursday, April 2, to discourage the concentration of people and thereby check the spread of Covid-19.