Mexico lifts lockdown amid
pandemic
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| A customer's temperature is taken at a store in Guadalajara after Mexico began opening its economy (AFP) |
Mexico's President is opening up the country and going on a
tour of its south, to re-boot the plummeting economy, in spite of an ominous
increase in the new coronavirus infection and death rate in an attempt to find
a balance between jobs and lives.
By James Blears
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has started
his Southern Tour, by inaugurating the Mayan Railway Project, and then on to
Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun, where he commemorated National Navy
Day.
His travel schedule will now roll on, taking in the States
of Campeche, Chiapas and his home State of Tabasco.
He's claiming that Mexico has tamed Covid-19, in spite of
3,000 new cases per day for the past week, more than 80,000 cases so far and
10,000 dead.
Most Mexicans think this is a massive underestimation of
reality, with hospitals overflowing with patients, and morgues crammed with
dead.
Thirty-one of Mexico's thirty two States are
officially declared at high contagion risk.
Lopez Obrador, who is aged sixty-six years old, is also
appreciably risking himself. He's survived two heart attacks, although
his closely monitored health is currently described as fair.
He says it's necessary for Mexico's economy to get back on
track. More than a million jobs have already been lost, and millions more are
teetering on the brink.
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