April 19, 2020
Cozumel News Update: The Municipal President Gets Tough – Road Closures Cancelled – Non-Essential Business Closures – State Designates COVID-19 Care Hospitals and more!
Cozumel Municipal President Gets Tough
President, Pedro Joaquin has reached the end of his patience with the violators of the quarentine. He has vowed to take drastic measures to enforce compliance. The federal manadates are necesary to prevent the COVID-19 Virus from spreading in Cozumel.
A Death Wish
Joaquin D. has state that the violators have a death wish. He stressed that they are endangering their family, their neighbors, and the health care professionals.
¨Go to any of the hospitals and sign an agreement that you refuse medical care. Then when you get sick, go home and die alone,¨he told them.¨
The Cozumel Road Closures Cancelled
Road closures were implemented statewide. The road closures in Cozumel lasted one day. There were reports of heavy traffic, police tape torn down, closures ignored, as well as motorcycles driving the wrong way on closed roads.
Cozumel Curfew Now 8 pm to 5 am
After the failure of the road closures, an earlier curfew was announced. Yesterday, the curfew started at eight o´clock at night..
Non-Essential Business Closures
It should be noted that the Closure of nonessential busineses are a federal mandate.
An operation is underway in Cozumel to enforce the closing of nonessential businesses. As a result, many businesses have been closed, and fined.
Citizens are being encouraged to report offenders to 911.
The above images are the Businesses that can remain open by Category.
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State Designates COVID-19 Care Hospitals
Our Governor, Carlo Joaquin has designated hospitals in strategic areas across the state to deal strictly with the COVID-19 patients.
I thought he mentioned Cozumel General Hospital. However, in an interview Cozumel’s Municipal President, stated that realistically we did not have typical hospitals in Cozumel.
Because of their size, Cozumel Hospitals are more like clinics. In other words, if the pandemic gets out of hand, we need every public and private hospital on the island.
Private Hospitals Helping with COVID-19 Crisis
The private hospitals have donated equipment and COVID-19 safety accessories to the public hospitals. Both State and Local Government have sung their praises.
The Latest COVID-19 Mandates in Cozumel
- Curfew 8 p.m. to 5 am
- One person only in any vehicle.
- Facemasks must be worn outdoors.
The Cozumel Food Drive Resumes
The new food shipment arrived after a seven day pause in the program. The food drive resumed on Saturday and will continue until each home in Cozumel is reached.
Pictured is the contents of todays food distribution. It was accompanied by a gas voucher for 4 kilos of gas.
This week a second food distribution is scheduled to begin in the state. This second round of food is to be funded by the Federal Government.
State Online Education Starts Monday
Tomorrow, April 20, online classes will begin for all levels of public education in the State. The Secretary of Education posted a listing on Facebook of the television, cable, YouTube, and internet channels that will broadcast the educational program.
The online address is https://materialeducativo.org/tag/semana-del-20-al-24-de-abril/.
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April 19, 2020 COVID-19 Stats
I am sorry to say these numbers in Cozumel are very deceiving! There have been deaths that were not tested. There have been illnesses and recoveries that were not tested. We have reports of people going to the public hospitals with cough and fever that were sent home without testing.
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