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May 30, 2020

News Cozumel, May 30, 2020 Distemper (Mosquillo) Warning, Cozumel Municipal Market, When will we Open? Driver´s License Renewal, State of Quintana Roo COVID-19 Update, Where to Donate.

Distemper (Moquillo) Warning

In addition to the Corona Virus crisis, Cozumel Animal Control has been dealing with a distemper epidemic. As a result, Animal Control has issued a distemper warning for the island.

They have reported that during the months of April and May at least one dog daily was diagnosed with distemper. They ask for your continued assistance in reporting strays at 869-0458.

Canine distemper is a viral disease that affects a wide variety of animal families, including domestic and wild species of dogs, coyotes, foxes, pandas, wolves, ferrets, skunks, raccoons, and large cats, as well as pinnipeds, some primates, and a variety of other species.

Pet owners are asked to be ensure that their pet´s vaccinations are up to date.

Keep your pets indoors as much as possible. When walking your dog stay close to home. After walking your dog wash the paws with soap and water.

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Cozumel Municipal Market

The Cozumel Municipal market put out a call to the community that as an essential business they are open. A representative from the market wants to ensure the public that all hygiene measures are followed from cleaning the areas, to the wearing face masks. The market has fish, meats and produce for sale. They are open daily the special hours of 6 am until 2 pm.

News Cozumel: When will we open?

Governor Carlos Joaquin Talks Reopening

There has been rumors and speculation based on the never-ending parade of speeches and interview from The President of Mexico, The Governor of Quintana Roo, and our own Municipal president. They seem to contradict each other at times.

Nothing is Set in Concrete

Instead of daily reports via Facebook, I chose not to publish what I considered to be speculations. After weeks of confusing statements, Pedro Joaquin, Cozumel´s Municipal President, finally stated the obvious. He growled at the listening audience and stated, ¨We have no opening date, the state has no opening date, the federal government has no set opening date, it will be based on the number of COVID-19 Cases that we have.¨

June 1st

As of today, May 30, 2020, the Governor stated that we will NOT be open for business June first. We will continue as we are with essential businesses only.

June 8th

He put out the date of June 8^th as the day we slowly start ¨The Reactivation Plan¨ of Quintana Roo.  The plan will be based at what color level we are at. Each level will be described and have instructions and restrictions to be detailed in a plan to be published this week.

Tourism is Essential

Tourism has been moved to the essential section as five dollars of every ten dollars made in the state comes from tourism. But NOT all tourism businesses will be open in the beginning. Once again, they will let us know.

A Glimpse of the Plan

He used an example of the plan. Hotels will be told how many rooms they can have open. Restaurants will be regulated by the number of tables that they can have, and transportation, by the number of seats.

The Last to Leave Home

He stressed that the vulnerable population must remain at home. Everyone must continue to wear masks and maintain the safe distance. In other words, all the restrictions will be maintained until such time as we are COVID-free.

We can go back to Phase 0 and only have essential businesses at anytime that the number of COVID-19 positive cases increase!

I will not bore you with any more speculations until such time as they tell us what color we fall under and what exactly that means. I expect that to be in the next 24 hours.

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Driver´s License Renewal

Drivers License renewal is open by appointment only. Make an appointment of message WhatsApp 987-564-7545 between three and six Monday through Friday. The phone line continues to be saturated.  

They are working part-time, as a result, Only 18 persons daily are scheduled. However, by mid-June they will double the number of people they can schedule daily.

The Cozumel Sun Community Projects & Support

The Cozumel Sun has delivered $45,000 pesos in food boxes to the community during this crisis. In addition, we have supported individuals with emergency funds and prescriptions!

Through our US PayPal account, we receive money for Brenda´s Community Kitchen, Jorge´s Community Kitchen, Tours by Cab, and individuals that are sponsored for food, medicine, or medical needs. We pay for the PayPal fees and the IVA tax on those donations.  

All donations to The Cozumel Sun this year will go to COVID-19 related causes and expenses.

The two largest Community Kitchens that we are sponsoring

Colonia Emilio Zapata Community Kitchen

In Charge: Brenda Briceño Can – 987-119-5943 Location: 12 Ave. Norte Entre Calles 75 y 80, Cozumel, México Services: FREE Meals to Go When:  Monday – Friday 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm. Meals delivered to seniors and other weekend deliveries

Colonia Adolfo Lopez Mateos Community Kitchen

In charge: Jorge Moreno – 987-105-4851 Location: 50 Avenida Norte Corner Calle 3 Sur across from the DIF ParkServices: FREE Meals delivered or Groceries When: Monday – Friday starting at 2:00 pm. Van delivers 7 days per week to the neediest in the secluded areas.

PayPal Accounts

Both Community Kitchens have Mexican PayPal accounts. Paypal Mexico has huge fees. This is the reason that they opt to have donations made to The Cozumel Sun´s United States PayPal account with the lesser fees.

Donations

The couple of boxes from the Government that only some people received are not doing it! Many are once again out of the food and a number of colonies have yet to receive government help.

How You Can Help:

If you are in Cozumel, a supermarket gift card, food, or cash donation. If you are out of Cozumel, you may designate a donation to Brenda´s or Jorge´s Community Kitchen in the Cozumel Sun PayPal account. The Cozumel Sun will cover the Paypal Charges and 16% IVA taxes.

You can designate the donation to support the ¨Cozumel Sun´s Comunity Projects and Support¨. Your donation may yet go to one of the kitchens anyway, if the kitchens need food, or one of their client needs medication, etc.

Record Keeping

The recipient will receive a copy of the Paypal donation. The donor will receive a copy of the signed confirmation that the recipient received the funds. The donor will receive a picture of the transaction and/or project when posible.You may make a general donation to be distributed as needed or specify for Jorge´s or Brenda´s Community Kitchen.

Giving is simple, go to Our Web Page https://www.thecozumelsun.com/ the PayPal Button is at the bottom left of the home page of The Cozumel Sun.

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Do not forget to clean your tinaco! Extreemely important, now more so due to the panddemic!

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