To counteract risks to public health due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chapala government will prohibit entry to all local cemeteries on Monday, November 2, Mexico’s Día de Muertos.

The Ajijic recycling program is gradually cranking up operations on a limited scale following temporary suspension of some services caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Personnel assigned to Chapala’s regulations department are beefing up inspections of local businesses to detect violations of Covid-19 infection safeguards.

Covid-19 is striking another blow to the Chapala area’s most cherished cultural happenings. The annual Fiesta Purépecha, normally held in Ajijic around mid-December, has been cancelled.

Dozens of topes (speed bumps) that once riddled the Chapala-Jocotepec highway were eliminated when the roadway was resurfaced earlier this year.

Mandatory health screenings (filtros or filters) to enter the Guadalajara historic core have been reinstated and will remain in place on weekends for the foreseeable future, the Guadalajara municipal government says.