Saturday, April 4, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
All beaches declared closed during emergency period The ruling comes just in time for Easter, when beaches are a popular destination
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Beachtime has been deemed nonessential.All beaches declared closed during emergency period
The ruling comes just in time for Easter, when beaches are a popular destination
The federal government has officially deemed beach tourism a nonessential activity, ordering state and local governments to close beaches in an attempt to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell told a press conference on Thursday that the closure order applies to every beach in the country until the end of the national emergency on April 30.
“The order has been given. It obliges state and municipal authorities to take coherent measures and suspend tourist activity on beaches, be it international or local tourism,” he said.
Other states had already begun to close beaches earlier this week, including Baja California Sur, Baja California and Oaxaca, where local authorities closed down the country’s only nudist beach, Zipolite.
Like beaches throughout Mexico, Zipolite is a big draw during the Semana Santa (Easter Week) vacation in April.
Authorities in Tamaulipas and Sonora had also begun to close beaches before the order, and Guerrero announced Wednesday that its beaches would be closed beginning Thursday.
“The state government makes this delicate decision in an unsatisfactory setting: we have had to choose between protecting life and suspending economic activity,” the state government said in a press release.
It said that the economy will always be recoverable as long as the human factor still exists and urged citizens to stay at home and practice other methods of social distancing.
It remains to be seen if there will be enforcement.
Authorities in the state have also canceled flights and cruises and closed hotels and other gathering places to avoid people assembling in groups.
Sources: AS (sp), El Financiero (sp)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Coronavirus closes beaches in at least 3 states Mexico News Daily Held in February, Zipolite's Nudist Festival brings around 8,000 visitors to the 1 1/2-kilometer-long stretch of beach and boosts hotel business in the ...
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Held in February, Zipolite's Nudist Festival brings around 8,000 visitors to the 1 1/2-kilometer-long stretch of beach and boosts hotel business in the ...
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Officials advise beachgoers in Baja California Sur that beaches are off limits.Coronavirus closes beaches in at least 3 states
Mexico's only official nudist beach is among them
Authorities in at least three states have announced beach closures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Baja California Sur closed every beach in the state, where municipal police will be responsible for ensuring that the closure is upheld. It could prove challenging during the normally busy Semana Santa (Holy Week) vacation in April.
In Baja California the municipal governments of Tijuana and Mexicali decided to close their beaches in order to avoid large gatherings of people.
Police patrolled the Playas de Tijuana beach area on Monday and urged citizens to leave at the order of Mayor Arturo González Cruz.
“I have decided to suspend all activities on the beaches of the region. … It’s important that citizens respect these measures for their protection,” said González.
The city of Mexicali is on the border with California, but the municipality extends far enough south to include the popular Gulf of California tourist destination San Felipe. It recently saw its number of cases rise from 14 to 20, leading Mayor Marina del Pilar to take the same action.
“We have seen how people have not been complying with isolation measures, and that’s why the contagion curve has been growing in our city,” said Del Pilar.
“It is therefore my obligation to introduce stricter measures. We’ve determined to close the tourist beaches of San Felipe, and install a patrol that will monitor [them],” she said.
In the south of Mexico, local authorities on the Oaxaca coast decided to close Zipolite, the country’s only nudist beach, due to the large number of tourists who usually visit during the Semana Santa holiday.
Many indigenous communities on the coast that offer tourist services like lagoon and mangrove tours and cabin stays have cancelled all tourist services completely.
Held in February, Zipolite’s Nudist Festival brings around 8,000 visitors to the 1 1/2-kilometer-long stretch of beach and boosts hotel business in the surrounding towns of Mazunte, Puerto Ángel, San Agustinillo and Pochutla.
Sources: Milenio (sp), El Universal (sp)
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Zipolite closes the doors to tourism
https://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/141365/zipolite-cierra-las-puertas-al-turismo
Zipolite closes the
doors to tourism
ZIPOLITE, Pochutla, Oaxaca.- To reduce the risk of contagion in the presence
of COVID-19 and keep the population safe in one of the poles with the
highest arrival of national and foreign visitors, inhabitants of Zipolite,
Pochutla, agreed to prevent the tourist access to the beach for the
duration of the health contingency
In an assembly held last Saturday in the center of the population, which was led by the municipal agent, Antonio García Martínez, inhabitants voted by majority for the option of maintaining a symbolic fence to the so-called Nudist Beach of Mexico to temporarily prevent the arrival tourists and thus avoid a possible spread of the disease, which in the case of Oaxaca accumulates 12 confirmed cases, while 14 suspected cases have been detected on the coast.
With a vote of 100 in favor, against 66 who disagreed, the assembly decided to close the doors to tourism, which will lead to serious damages to the local economy, based mainly on the provision of tourist services and that it had in the holiday season. of Easter a possibility of rebound.
In an interview, the municipal representative explained that this is a necessary and timely measure, which despite the consequences it will bring in terms of economic losses, is unavoidable to maintain a healthy community and requires a responsible attitude from hoteliers and other providers of services.
He explained that in order to control the entry of passers-by, a census is carried out in each of the hotels with the largest capacity - around 20 -, to know how many tourists are staying and, from this, keep the establishments under surveillance to respect the stays of who are there, but avoid the entrance of more tourists.
The agent stated that the members of the tourist police will collaborate with the surveillance of the beach, common spaces and commercial establishments to maintain order and confirm that the corresponding sanitary measures are applied, but denied that this implies that the entry or exit of people or to stop those who want to enter the area.
Antonio García explained that restaurants and grocery stores will remain open for the consumption of premises, but with the implementation of permanent hygiene measures and keeping the healthy distance proposed by health authorities.
After commenting that currently the occupation remains at an average of 10 percent, he instructed the entrepreneurs and business owners of this pole to act responsibly in the face of the pandemic and to follow the recommendations and preventive measures to contain the advance of the coronavirus.
Monday, March 30, 2020
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
Communities in 3 states say no tourists allowed In Tamiahua, Veracruz, community guards will prevent the entry of outsiders FREE ACCESS Published on Tuesday, March 24, 2020
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Tourists are being denied access to Isla Holbox.Communities in 3 states say no tourists allowed
In Tamiahua, Veracruz, community guards will prevent the entry of outsiders
Some municipalities in Quintana Roo, Veracruz and Oaxaca are implementing strict measures to prevent the introduction of Covid-19, including banning the entry of all tourists and non-local vehicles.
Citizens in the municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo, agreed yesterday that tourists would not be permitted to traverse the highway leading to the port of Chiquilá, where a ferry runs to Isla Holbox.
Only local residents with identification, vehicles carrying visitors leaving Holbox, workers and people with a medical condition will be allowed to pass.
“… not one more tourist, local or foreign …” will be permitted, residents said, explaining that they wish to “keep things the way they are.” The decision to close access to the community was reached unanimously at a residents’ meeting.
In Veracruz, authorities in the coastal municipality of Tecolutla announced that no tourists or outside vehicles will be allowed in and advised tourism service providers not to accept any reservations until further notice.
“The coming weeks are crucial to avoid massive spread. Let’s remember that together we can overcome this risk,” Mayor Juan Ángel Espejo Bovio said in a message posted to social media.
Farther north in Veracruz, the mayor of Tamiahua, a municipality 140 kilometers south of Tampico, Tamaulipas, announced an even more drastic measure.
Citlali Medellín said that community guards would prevent the entry of outsiders to 71 different communities in Tamiahua.
Each contingent will be made up of five to 10 guards depending on the size of the community and the number of roads leading into it, she said.
In Zongolica, Veracruz, located 40 kilometers south of Córdoba, authorities are not banning the entry of tourists but they have set up checkpoints where their temperatures are checked to determine if they are suffering a fever.
“This disease will not defeat us,” Mayor Juan Carlos Mezhua said in a social media post.
In the neighboring state of Oaxaca, authorities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec municipalities of Santiago Laollaga and San Juan Guichicovi have banned the entry of cargo trucks traveling from central Mexico, while in Santiago Astata, also on the isthmus, taxi drivers have been ordered not to take foreigners to the beach.
In Santiago Lalopa, located 140 kilometers northeast of Oaxaca city in the Sierra Norte region, authorities have announced that any former locals who now live in other parts of the country and wish to visit must provide a medical certificate that shows they do not have Covid-19. As coronavirus testing can be difficult to access, the measure is likely to dissuade potential visitors.
Meanwhile in Capulálpam, a community in the Sierra Norte municipality of Ixtlán, authorities have imposed a 10:00 p.m.-6:00 a.m. curfew and announced that access for residents will be via a single road.
There were seven confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Veracruz as of Monday and three in Oaxaca. Health authorities announced Monday night that there were 367 confirmed cases in the country and 826 suspected cases. Four people have died.
Source: Reforma (sp), El Universal (sp)
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