Mexico City will suspend non-essential activities from Saturday until January 10 due to the increase in Covid-19 contaminations, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday, December 18.
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In the Mexican capital, as well as in the neighboring state of Mexico City (center), "
only essential activities will remain in operation
," including the sale of food, transport, factories, banks, said the mayor in A press release.
Mexico City is "
close to reaching 75% of its hospital capacity
", despite repeated appeals to the population to reduce its movements, recalled the city council, who announced an increase in the number of beds available for the sick. of Covid-19.
The State of Mexico is also taking "
drastic measures to slow down the rate of contamination,
" said Governor Alfredo del Mazo.
Mexico City and the State of Mexico have a population of nearly 23 million.
Faced with the increase in the number of deaths, it is necessary to "
take extraordinary measures
", confirmed the Under-Secretary of Health, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, spokesperson for the government strategy in the face of the pandemic.
Since the appearance of a first case of coronavirus contamination on February 28 in Mexico, which has 128 million inhabitants, 1,289,298 people have been infected with the virus, of which 116,487 have died as a result of Covid-19, according to the last official report published Thursday.
In Mexico City, 277,733 people were infected and 19,583 died.