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Jalisco senator Clemente Castañeda has called Hugo López-Gatell, the federal government’s Covid-19 point man, “irresponsible” for suggesting there is no scientific evidence that using face masks can prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus.

While most people are fixated on the growing spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, health authorities are starting to warn the public to begin precautions to prevent infection of dengue fever, as well as other common diseases transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, such as chikungunya and zika.

In an effort to efficiently combat the spread of Covid-19 infection in Jalisco, the state’s Department of Health recently partnered with the University of Guadalajara (UDG) to launch the Radar Jalisco system aimed at increasing prompt detection of persons infected with the disease and achieving a more accurate count of active cases.

The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía) has opened a special unit to investigate assaults on medical personnel.

A key indicator of the pace of Covid-19 transmission in Jalisco is that 88 percent of the state’s hospital beds designated for infected patients remain unused, state health officials say.

An astounding variety of flowering trees and vines thrive in Western Mexico’s semi-tropical climate, reaching a year-round peak with the arrival of Spring and increasingly warmer temperatures.

Chapala curate José Octavio Moreno Olivares announced that the San Francisco Parish and all other churches and chapels in the community have closed their doors, effective April 21 through May 30 as a measure to prevent Covid-19 contagion.

The Jalisco state government is widening the scope of its Covid-19 testing program with the implementation of a strategy it says “represents a paradigm shift in the detection of cases of the disease.”