QUERÉTARO, Mexico
Mexico said it would now suspend categories until next month, save gatherings of more than 100 people and suspend some work on Tuesday as it enters the “second phase” of coronavirus protection.
“In Mexico we have still reached the tipping point or the spread from slowness to acceleration, and this is an opportunity for Mexico because measures have been taken at the right time,” Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference.
The government said it was implementing those measures due to a backlog of non-imported cases.
Classes will be suspended until April 19, extending the last school closure. In addition, work that requires commuting to and from the workplace has been postponed.
Mexico has pledged that a plan is being developed so that its seniors can stay home after work.
The government said some entrepreneurs, such as Carlos Slim, Mexico’s most successful businessman, have vowed not to fire anyone who doesn’t show up to fight the pandemic.
But with 52% of the population living below the food poverty line, experts doubt that jobs will disappear entirely, so many others live paycheck to paycheck.
Although, according to experts, those numbers are much higher, the country has officially announced 367 cases, 826 suspected cases, and 4 deaths from the virus.
Although the government has been confident that the public is prepared, Mexico has lagged behind other countries when it comes to preventive measures, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged citizens to continue frequenting restaurants. He called the internal permanence an “exaggerated” measure.
“We’re going to continue to live a general life, and at the [right] time, the president will tell all of you when,” he said Sunday.
By comparison, nearly a portion of Americans are being asked to stay home. After emerging in Wuhan, China, last December, the virus known as COVID-19 has spread to at least 169 countries and regions. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak. a pandemic.
According to data compiled by the U. S. -based Johns Hopkins University, the U. S. In the U. S. , the number of confirmed cases worldwide stands at more than 395,600, and the death toll surpassed 17,200, while more than 103,000 people have recovered.