Governor says closed bars and nightclubs helped reduce spread of COVID-19 in August

When evaluating the first 15 days, after the Health Board decided to suspend activities in bars and nightclubs and reduce hours in the restaurant sector, the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, indicated that the measures allowed for a reduction in active cases and deaths by Covid-19.

The governor explained that active cases decreased from 10,392 in epidemiological week 31, to 9,683 in week 32; while deaths decreased from 231 to 189.

“We have already managed to start a small decrease (in infections and deaths) and it is still, I would say, the . . .