Luis Antonio García Rodríguez stressed the importance that, without exception, service providers know and apply these prevention measures

The director of the Fund for the protection of Marine Resources (FONMAR), Luis Antonio García Rodríguez, informed the entity’s sport fishing service providers, which is already published on the official website of the State Commission for the Protection against Risks Sanitary (COEPRIS), the protocol that must be followed for the reactivation of that activity as of this Monday, June 15.

The state official specified that, based on the agreement of the State Health Safety Council, to go from level 6 to 5, that is, from red to orange in the COVID Health Alert System, various non-essential activities, including the sport fishing, are reactivated with a series of preventive measures that seek mainly to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

García Rodríguez pointed out that this protocol indicates that the service provider must evaluate the risk and / or vulnerable groups to grant the service, while in the case of minors, the departure will be under the responsibility of their parents or guardians.

In the same way, it is established that each sport fisherman must carry with him, or in his case he will be provided with a health kit consisting of mouth covers, glasses, cap, gloves, closed footwear, long-sleeved clothing and antibacterial gel, in addition to his if the latter is not the case, the service provider will provide you with a fully disinfected one.

Likewise, each sport fisherman, before boarding the boat, must sign a responsive letter stating that they know and agree to comply with the provisions of the protocol, which was the result of various technical meetings in which the COEPRIS, the sport fishing sector, Port Authority, the Secretariat of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Agricultural Development (SEPADA) and FONMAR.

The remote medicine strategy, implemented by the Government of Baja California Sur to deal with the contingency caused by Covid-19, “continues to be an important tool for detecting and promptly monitoring patients channeled into home isolation, with the perspective to verify that they evolve in a positive way or proceed to hospital admission in the event that they present complications, "said Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis after making a call to the South Californians to use this tool that will allow timely care and better taking advantage of the infrastructure available in the state.

During the working session of the State Committee on Health Safety, in which the Secretary of Health, Víctor George Flores, and the representatives of Social Security and ISSSTE, as well as the Armed Forces and the municipalities of Los Cabos, were present, La Paz and Loreto, the importance of keeping distancing measures in force and in case of suspicion, using the telephone service with the number 800BCSCOVID (80022726843), as well as in the digital self-diagnosis application that is available on the page, was highlighted. web coronavirus.bcs.gob.mx, through which 22,416 services have been provided.

Mendoza Davis recalled that this scheme allows remote care to be given to people who are suspected of having the disease, thus avoiding saturation of hospital units and guaranteeing the provision of services to patients with severe clinical conditions.

Through these two platforms, the concerns of people with respiratory symptoms are received. They are screened by questionnaire to define if they comply with the signs associated with this infection (such as dry cough, fever and difficulty breathing) and, if so, they are channeled to qualified doctors who provide telephone or video call consultations.

This telemedicine strategy allows reducing the influx of people to hospitals, thus preventing people from being exposed to the spread of the disease and reinforcing the availability of hospital beds for patients positive for Covid-19 who present severe conditions, pointed out the health Secretary.

It was also announced that the evaluation of non-essential activities that have been reactivated is continuing and that it will be in the next few days when it is determined whether a further step will be taken or, if the situation warrants, return to the suspension of operations.

The State Committee on Health Safety authorized to go from level 6 to 5 in the Health Alert System from June 15 to 21, with which non-essential economic and sociocultural activities may be reestablished with the timely monitoring of protocols that take care of the health of South Californians. "The intention is to gradually and responsibly move to the new reality of the state and the country, releasing activities that reactivate the economy, but with the lowest possible impact on health," said Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis in a published video. the afternoon-night of this Thursday, June 11.

During this period, the behavior of the pandemic in Baja California Sur will continue to be monitored, in such a way that in the committee session next week, it will be determined whether to continue, or return to level 6.

In the working session in which the Secretary of Health, Víctor George Flores, the representatives of the entire Health sector and of the Armed Forces were present.

This transition to alert level five allows the reactivation of full-service restaurants (including restaurants and drink services in timeshare accommodation), dining services for companies and institutions, restaurants with a la carte or regular food services and self-service stores, real estate agencies, sales agencies of transport vehicles, retail trade of natural products, glassware, china and kitchen utensils, retail trade of furniture, equipment and computer accessories, as well as automotive glass and trucks, hotels, motels, timeshares, and other lodging services, including on-property services, sport fishing, and rental of washing machines and household items.

The reestablishment of activities in this type of companies will have to occur with the full fulfillment of requirements that the State Health Safety Committee itself established for level five of health alert by Covid, such as ensuring that in the areas of attention to the public there is one client for every four square meters and that in recreational and socio-cultural activities the capacity is limited to 30 percent of the capacity of spaces.

In addition, sanitary protocols such as disinfecting commonly used surfaces and providing supplies for hand hygiene, which is decisive for the prevention of infectious diseases, will have to be followed, said the state president, recalling that healthy distance is a measure that came to stay.

The State Health Safety Committee will keep a punctual monitoring of the behavior of the pandemic, to determine if it continues or recedes, hence the importance in which the population applies with responsibility and solidarity the measures established to prevent infections.

In relation to recreational and sociocultural activities, the governor said: “… they may be carried out exclusively in places such as parks and beaches determined and authorized by each municipal authority; in them, the municipality itself will establish the capacity of the place and only 30% of the maximum capacity of people allowed will be located in each of them… ”

All information with details can be found on the website: www.coronavirus.bcs.gob.mx

91 Blue Flag Mexico sites were approved during the second meeting of the Blue Flag National Jury, season 2020 - 2021, where the Municipality of Los Cabos was ratified as a destination committed to the environment, as well as the municipality with the largest number of beaches with this award, at an international level; 22 beaches will be officially awarded, from July 1st.

19 of the beaches received renovations and 3 new beaches managed to obtain the award: La Gaviota beach, with 100 meters of beachfront, located in the Buena Vista subdelegation; El Surgidero beach, with 100 meters of beachfront, located in the La Ribera delegation, and Monuments beach, with 260 meters of beachfront, located in the Cabo San Lucas delegation, -in front of the Thompson hotel-.

In this regard, the mayor of Los Cabos, Armida Castro Guzmán expressed that it has been a great challenge to maintain and achieve the certification of more beaches: “we are an international example of what should be done with care for the environment. These certifications represent teamwork. Understand that if, as a Government, we do our part, we are also providing service providers with something else to offer: the best beaches in the world. I am very honored to represent the ZOFEMAT team, who have raised the quality of our beaches, "she concluded.

It is important to highlight that, since last November of the year 2019, the XIII City Council of Los Cabos, through the Municipal Coordination of ZOFEMAT, -managed by Javier Ontiveros Fabián-, promoted institutional efforts, which resulted in this international distinction .

Finally, it is recalled that the Blue Flag program rewards those coastal destinations that achieve excellence in their environmental management and management, safety, services and water quality, for which the awards position Los Cabos as a leading municipality at the level international.