Puerto Vallarta reports a considerable drop in the number of Covid infections this week with only 37 positive cases.

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Yesterday morning, Thursday February 25th, the population of adults over 60 years of age began to arrive at the facilities of the Zona Naval Hospital in Puerto Vallarta to receive the first dose of the vaccine against covid-19, from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

Filters will be installed to avoid agglomerations in the city during the Easter vacations.

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15 vaccination centers will be set up where there will be the presence of the three levels of government for the proper development of the day. 

A bicycle ride from Marina Vallarta to the Malecon and back for the respect of gender equality, but above all to emphasize that women deserve to be respected and valued, and in addition the recognition before society, which in this case was the people of Puerto Vallarta.

The lack of foreign tourists in PV has caused a decrease in the profits in dollars that this platform generated before the pandemic.

Vaccines are only for senior over 60 years of age.

They will be distributed to the most vulnerable population, adults over 60 years of age.

Authorities arrived at the Guadalajara International Airport to receive 156,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine.

The Secretary of Jalisco informs that the vaccines will be destined to the urban population, being the largest batch of vaccines against the new coronavirus. The beneficiary municipalities will be announced in the next few days by the federal government. That package of Biologics is part of the 852,000 vaccines that just arrived in the country, according to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrad. "As announced by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived from Belgium. This is the week we have received the most vaccines. We continue to make progress." The doses arrived in 4 flights and were distributed to Mexico City, Queretaro, Jalisco, and Nuevo Leon.

OTHER AT-RISK SECTORS WILL BE VACCINATED

Meanwhile, last Monday the government of Jalisco announced that the arrival of Biologics would continue for the elderly, and other at-risk sectors would be added, which would be developed in private laboratories, penitentiary centers, forensic and institutional services for organ transplants, and palliative care, among others. A few days ago the Secretary of Health of the federal government, Jorge Alcocer Varala, said that the new vaccines arriving this week will be distributed "in 38 urban municipalities mainly," and not small marginalized communities according to the vaccination plan that this week will be vaccinated.

The commitment is that this week "older adults in 623 municipalities in the country will be vaccinated. In the accumulated, the federal government emphasized that Mexico has already received 4.6 million vaccines against the new coronavirus, among all the shipments from the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Sinovac. The new news is that more Biologicals will arrive in March and May through the international mechanism Covax, an initiative in which the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) participate.

Diego Monraz, whom is the Secretary of Transportation of the entity announced that since the Indriver application is not allowed, drivers could be fined up to 35 thousand pesos if they chose to use it.

The Indriver application is forbidden to be used, and whoever uses it will be sanctioned for violating the law. The Secretary of Transportation in the state of Jalisco, Diego Monraz, who recently stated that the use of the InDriver application is discouraged, since it is not registered, there are risks for the users and there are no guarantees for a safe service,  which can be monitored or regulated by the authorities. 

He mentioned that there had already been an approach with this company to be regulated but there has been no favorable response, so the only one that can operate in the city is Uber. In this sense, he invited InDriver drivers to work in legality since irregularity and piracy will cost them an economic sanction. However, many drivers work on the platform because Uber takes from them, according to their own testimonies, a high percentage of commission, so they prefer the other platform , where the customer offers an amount of money for the requested trip and the driver can accept, decline, and even negotiate the fare. 

So it represents more trips and a little more money. However, they also claimed that there were many problems with the other application that was not in compliance. It is worth mentioning that InDriver operates freely in Puerto Vallarta.