Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – The return of Jalisco to the color green on Mexico’s Covid-19 Risk Traffic Light Map could result in all Puerto Vallarta businesses returning to 100% capacity for the first time since March 2020.
The monitoring system, which is updated every other week, was implemented in June 2020, and is used to alert residents and visitors to the epidemiological risks of COVID-19 and provide guidance on restrictions on certain activities in each of the country’s states.
The federal government considers four factors when determining the risk level and corresponding Traffic Light color for each state: case number trends (whether new infections are increasing, decreasing or stable), the number of people requiring hospitalizations, the percentage of hospital occupation, and the number of new positive cases resulting from the tests carried out in each of the states.
The latest update of the epidemiological traffic light map, which went into force on Monday, March 7 and runs through March 20, puts Jalisco in the green, which means that all daily and economic activities can return to normal. Everything operates as it did before the pandemic, with the difference that the corresponding sanitary measures must continue to be taken; wearing of face masks, maintaining a healthy distance, and the use of antibacterial gel.
For Puerto Vallarta, this is positive news, as a great number of tourists are expected to visit during the two-week-long Semana Santa vacation period, which could advance the city’s economic recovery to the extent of reaching figures similar to those of 2019, prior to the worldwide pandemic.
For this reason, the Health Board, which will meet this week, could make the measures that commercial establishments must take even more flexible and, although the protocols for the use of face masks, temperature taking and presentation of the vaccination certificate will continue to be in force, capacity could increase to 100% in all tourism sectors.
If so determined, it would be the first time that Puerto Vallarta businesses can operate at 100% capacity since March 2020, before the first positive case of Covid-19 was registered in the city.
With information from Vallarta Independiente.