Jocotepec is in the throes of a worrisome health crisis, not from the dreaded coronavirus, but the common summer plague of dengue fever.

After evading Covid-19’s steely grip on Jalisco for nine weeks and overcoming two false alarms, Chapala has finally been added to the growing list of pandemic venues, with the first two cases of the disease confirmed by federal, state and municipal authorities in the course of this week.

Two Chapala police officers have been cleared of misconduct stemming from the May 1 detention of Juan Ramón Álvarez López, director of the local Preparatoria Regional (high school).

Following the May 18 announcement that Chapala’s restaurant sector is being allowed to resume at-table service for their customers, dozens of local eateries have filed their paperwork for official authorization.

Beauty salons and barber shops top the list of Chapala’s non-essential businesses that are eager to attend to customers after obtaining authorization to reopen under the Jalisco government’s Fase Cero economic reactivation program.

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.