Yes, no, maybe so. Chapala’s score in the official Covid-19 count went back to zero Wednesday, May 27, just 24 hours after state and federal health authorities put the municipality in the plus column for the first time.

The Chapala government has given local restaurants a green light to reopen for at-table service, effective as of Monday, May 18.

While Chapala remains free of officially confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease continues closing in on the community, with outbreaks now registered in four of its neighboring municipalities.

With the report of the first fatality in Jocotepec and another in Chapala this week, the death toll of victims of adulterated alcohol poisoning in the Lake Chapala area now stands at 17, accumulated over the past two weeks.

While gradually moving ahead on steps to reactivate the local economy and get his constituents back to work, Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya is not particularly anxious to go full tilt on reviving the tourism industry.

Chapala’s traffic department is revved up for action following the delivery of 12 second-hand motorcycles acquired by the municipal government at no cost through a loan arrangement with the state government’s Administration Secretariat.