Restrictions on coronaviruses will be lifted next week in Baja California Sur (BCS), the Ministry of Health reported, as the state moves from point 5, or critical threat, to point 4, one of the main threats in the state’s fitness alert system.
As of Monday, corporations will operate at 40% of their capacity, up from 30%.
Churches, movie theaters, and gymnasiums may also reopen next week for the first time in five months.
The easing of restrictions is due to the fact that the epidemiological curve has stabilized in the BCS, officials report. “Thanks to the duty and sacrifices of thousands of people, today we are taking steps towards reopening,” Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis said Friday afternoon.
The announcement is smart news for the resorts of Los Cabos, which had the highest hotel occupancy of the moment in the country between August 10 and 16, tweeted The Minister of Tourism of Mexico, Miguel Torruco, last week. Puerto Vallarta ruled the country with 29.3% occupancy, while Los Cabos arrived at the moment with 27.4%
Yesterday, the federal government reported 7276 cumulative cases of coronavirus in the BCS, as well as 337 deaths, the numbers are different from those listed by the state. On the BCS website, which indicates that it is being updated in real time, 7193 cases of coronavirus and 370 deaths have been reported.
Cloudy skies and rains prevailed in the BCS on Friday when tropical depression Hernandez spread to the state east of Los Barriles with winds of 75 km/h. The typhoon brought torrential rains to parts of the continental Mexico as it headed north, but then lost heavy strength and is expected to degenerate further over the next 24 hours.
The main festivities of Loreto, scheduled from 6 to 8 September, have been canceled by coronavirus, informs the municipality. Normally, the city celebrates with religious, civic and cultural activities and a statue of the Virgin of Lorette parades through the streets of the city as locals gather along the parade route.
This year, the parade and other devotees will take position in a practical way and citizens are suggested to stay at home, Peninsular Digital reports.
In Los Cabos, the popular foreign food festival in November, “Sabor a Cabo” will take place this year.
Each year, more than 3,000 people attend the festival, which starts the high season. Participants dishes from 60 other restaurants, as well as wineries and distillers of tequila and mezcal, and the proceeds will go to charities such as the Red Cross and the Los Cabos Children’s Foundation.
The festival’s organizing committee said sponsors had surrendered and would refocus efforts on the introduction of a new and advanced edition of the festival in Los Cabos in 2021, in all likelihood organizing around a Day of the Dead theme, Metropolimx reports.
Through the taco, Mexico has conquered the world and the Netflix series The Taco Chronicles that premiered last year paid homage to the many flavors and shapes that this respected dish can encompass. The first season of the documentary series in Spanish featured six other tacos, from the shepherd to barbecue.
The second season begins on September 15 and this time the series stops in La Paz to explore the good look of the fish taco, visiting taco Fish restaurant, a local favorite since 1992.
Animal welfare activists in Los Cabos say that due to the coronavirus pandemic, they have noticed a 35% increase in the number of homeless pets and 90% relief in donations, reducing them to just four, BCS News reports.
The director of the Los Cabos Animal Protective Society, Armando Martínez, says there can be up to 90,000 pets roaming the streets. The municipal government does not exist, even if one of the promises of Mayor Armida Castro’s crusade was to protect the animals, he said, and the organization is on the brink of collapse.
Adoptions are far from the overall levels. Currently, the corporation says it only adopts two or three animals a month, 10 to 15 before the pandemic.
After a car chase through the streets of La Paz, police arrested two other people for robbing a warehouse in Oxxo. Inside the safe, the government discovered 400 cans of beer stolen from other brands and a stolen package of noodle soup. The two men, over the age of 18, were arrested and imprisoned.
Also this week, the San Jose del Cabo National Guard chased a Chevrolet Aveo that ended up crashing into a pole. After making sure the driver’s injuries were life-threatening, officials discovered six packages of hybrid marijuana in the vehicle, labeled Amnesia, Champagne, Hydrolotus and Matermase. They also discovered 40 packs of generic hashish and six doses of cocaine.
And in Cabo San Lucas, a guy who was trapped in the streets of Cabo San Lucas like a bath in plain sight of police officers was arrested and searched. Police discovered two medium-sized marijuana packages and two more methamphetamines, BCS News reports.
The president of the Association of Hotels and Tourism of La Paz, Aguston Olachea Nogueda, announced this week that the beaches of the municipality could potentially reopen, but by reservation only through an official application. “This app is new, it will be the only one in the country. It will also give the right to ensure the fitness of beach visitors and facilitate access to the beaches,” he said.
The announcement received with dismay the citizens of La Paz who had many questions about how the application would be administered. They expressed fear about whether a hotel can simply block all appointments for its visitors and that access to the beaches would be limited to other people with a smartphone. Some called it a step towards the privatization of the beaches of the municipality, el Sudcaliforniano reported.
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