Mexico to Extend COVID-19 Measures Through June
As COVID-19 cases rise, Mexico plans to extend its anti-coronavirus measures by a month.
Across the country, businesses have shuttered, schools are empty, and people have been staying home except to shop for food or go to work deemed essential. Those measures were to remain in place through the end of April.
“Now it will be extended until May 30 for the purpose of maintaining the intensity of mitigation measures that are yielding results,” said Hugo López Gatell, undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion.
In some parts of Mexico where there is little or no confirmed transmission, those measures could be lifted a few weeks earlier, according to López. But the lifting of restrictions anywhere depends on their continued observation across the country, he said.
