General News

“All hands are on deck” at approximately 25 assisted living/“nursing” homes in the Lake Chapala area, reports Wendy Jane Carrel, a lakeside resident and Spanish-speaking senior care specialist and consultant.

“Attention. We are in a national health emergency due to the coronavirus.

Lakeside first responders received basic training on protocols and safety measures to be followed for pre-hospital attention and transportation of patients testing positive or showing symptoms of Covid-19 infection.

The Chapala government has recorded an English-language message that is now blaring out from the loudspeakers of “sound trucks” roaming the municipality to advise residents to stay off the streets and wear face masks during the Covid-19 contingency.

Four young men were shot to death in the early hours of Saturday, April 25 in the vicinity of the Chapala cemetery.

Chapala authorities have turned away thousands of seasonal visitors at roadside checkpoints set up at entry points to the municipality since the first of this month as a measure to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the community.

Now that the Jalisco government has mandated compulsory use of face masks for all persons in the public sphere, lakeside residents having reason to leave their homes may be scrambling to supply themselves with cubrebocas (mouth covers).

With two potential Covid-19 cases discarded so far by state health authorities, Chapala officially remains free of the disease.