The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As the incidence of Covid-19 infection in the north shore corridor has surged this month, public anxiety over the identification of patients and persons they may have exposed has likewise been on the rise.
Confirmed Covid-19 cases in Chapala jumped from two on Thursday, June 4 to 11 on Sunday, June 7, while the tally in Jocotepec rose from five to nine over the same period, with the municipality’s first death attributed to the disease, according to statistics reported on the Jalisco Department of Health (SSJ) Radar system.
As the reactivation of local businesses steadily picks up, Chapala area residents dependent upon public transportation are raising complaints about lax enforcement of the obligatory use of face masks to help contain the spread of the Covid-19.
Lakeside motorists who are in need of obtaining or updating a Jalisco driver’s license won’t have luck in the immediate future at the state Transportation Department (Setrans) office in Chapala, or at any of the agency’s branches elsewhere.
Jocotepec is in the throes of a worrisome health crisis, not from the dreaded coronavirus, but the common summer plague of dengue fever.
Representatives of the Jalisco branch of Cruz Roja Mexicana rolled into Chapala early Monday, June 1, with a truckload of cleaning supplies to give away to local families of limited means.
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.
After years in the making, the Chapala government is finally enacting its own regulatory code for the protection and treatment of animals, put into effect this week after final approval by the city council.
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).
