After evaluating the preventive measures taken 15 days ago at the Health Board, the strategy designed to contain Covid-19 begins to give results.
Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez highlighted a decrease in the records of active cases and the deaths registered with respect to weeks 31 and 32, which ended on August 14, and declared that the measures approved by the Board will continue.
“We have already started a small decrease and it is still, I would say, incipient. There is still growth in hospitalizations, but much less rapid than what has been happening, that is, we already see a slowdown and we hope in the coming days due to the cycle of the virus itself that the decrease will also begin to be seen in the number of people hospitalized. Although we are improving, there is still a high level of risk and we need to act with a great sense of responsibility,” explained the Governor.
Active cases decreased from 10,392 in week 31, to 9,683 in week 32. Deaths decreased from 231 in week 31, to 189 deaths in week 32.
He added that a positivity is registered which remains stable at 24.3%, and that the average of active cases per epidemiological week has slowed, with 7.2 less active cases per hundred.
Accompanied by experts that contribute to the table made up of public and private institutions, the Jalisco Health Secretariat, and the director of the Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara (Jaime Andrade,) the Jalisco president reiterated that the return to classes continues. He clarified that the growth of infections in minors was recorded during the holiday season, and those infections have begun their decline.
"We will reiterate and maintain that the return to face-to-face classes is maintained as we have announced, with the necessary care."
Regarding the Covid-19 National Traffic Light, Jalisco is close to the orange color based on the fact that the total points that define the traffic light in the state went from 31 to 29 in a preliminary report.
Regarding municipalities, the incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants fell in Puerto Vallarta, where a reduction has been identified from 725 to 233; Guadalajara from 197 to 106; Zapopan from 183 to 99; Tlajomulco de Zúñiga from 128 to 88; El Grullo from 109 to 91; Tepatitlán de Morelos from 124 to 89; and in Cihuatlán a notable decrease from 428 to 186 in week 31 compared to 29, calling on the population of the latter municipality to stay informed through official channels and stop misinformation of some council members who seek to profit from these issues in this town, he added.
In his message, he urged the population over 30 to attend the vaccination sessions, reiterating that there are appointments and vaccines available, as progress is low in some age segments of the population.