The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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).
“Attention. We are in a national health emergency due to the coronavirus.
The Chapala government won’t be sending out paddy wagons to round up rogue residents who balk at the compulsory Covid-19 prevention measures that took effect Monday, April 20, by state mandate.
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.
The Chapala government won’t be sending out paddy wagons to round up rogue residents who balk at tougher Covid-19 prevention measures taking effect Monday, April 20 by state mandate. Local authorities will, however, flex their muscles to make people comply with the new directives on social distancing, staying at home and compulsory use of face masks in public, announced Sunday evening by Governor Enrique Alfaro.
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.
Chapala residents are mourning the death of native son Salvador Rodríguez Medina, who succumbed to the Covid-19 virus Monday, April 13 in Santa Ana, California.
With two potential Covid-19 cases discarded so far by state health authorities, Chapala officially remains free of the disease.
Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya has stressed that his government has not imposed a local Dry Law. However, in fairness to liquor stores that will suffer significant income loss, City Hall issued instructions for chain convenience stores and supermarkets to close off their liquor shelves as well.
