Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – Late this afternoon, Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez announced that the use of face masks will no longer be mandatory in the State of Jalisco starting tomorrow, May 10, 2022.
He said that the Health Board decided to eliminate the mandatory use of face masks for almost all activities, both in open and closed spaces, except on public transport and medical health units. The decision also applies to schools, colleges and study centers, this due to the insistent demand of parents in this hot season.
The decision was based on the low rate of infections and hospitalizations in the entity, however, he called not to lower our guard in the face of the pandemic.
Alfaro Ramírez reported that the Covid numbers register 59 cases per day on average, against 819 cases per day in the last two years; Likewise, there are currently 21 people hospitalized and in April there were 19 deaths, which represent the lowest level per month since 2020.
“These indicators make us think that we can take a step forward, carefully, with the awareness that this is not over, also bearing in mind that in other parts of the world there are outbreaks that should be cause for alert. For this reason, we want to communicate today to all the people of Jalisco that we have made the decision to eliminate the mandatory use of face masks in our State,” said the Governor.
The Governor called for decision-making capacity if necessary, since worldwide outbreaks of Covid-19 have occurred in different regions of other continents.
Likewise, the call is made to the population that has some type of respiratory disease to wear the mask as an individual responsibility.
The Health Board has been made up of scientists, academics and health professionals since the beginning of the health emergency, as well as government personnel, through which decisions have been made more than two years after the first infections in the state.
Source: jalisco.gob.mx