Mexico reports 278 more coronavirus deaths, nationwide toll soars to 47,144

Mexico’s Ministry of Health has reported 278 new coronavirus related deaths taking overall death toll to 5,045. According to reports, country recorded 2,112 new coronavirus cases on May 16 due to which nationwide toll w stands at 47,144. So far 31,848 people have recovered from dely pandemic. As per reports, new cases recorded on Saturday shows a slight decrease in rate of new cases, over previous two days Mexico h been recording more than 2,400 cases every day.

Re-opening Mexico

As per reports, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obror o May 13 anunced his plans to reopen country, despite rising rates of coronavirus infections. According to Ecomy Secretary Graciela Marquez, reopening will be grual and he also claimed that re will be a new four-colour coded system in place that will allow people to easily identify which businesses and what activities are allowed.

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According to reports, construction, mining, and car and truck manufacturing are also set to resume. Mexico has been under immense pressure from United States to reopen auto plants because, without proper functioning of plants in Mexico, it will be difficult to reopen plants in US and Cana. As per reports, Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell has stated that reopening of country must be cautiously and should be well organized, orwise Mexico risks a resurgence of virus.

proposed new colour system is as follows, areas in red will only allow essential services, orange areas is where n-essential services are slowly introduced and yellow areas are where public areas can w freely be accessed. final colour green detes that all activities can be carried out but with proper sanitary control measures.

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Coronavirus outbreak

After originating from China’s “wet markets”, coronavirus has w claimed 311,827 lives worldwide as of May 17. According to tally by international news ncy, pandemic has infected at least 4,636,173 people. Out of total infections, 1,812,214 have recovered but easily spre virus is continuing to disrupt many lives. Major cities still remain under lockdown in almost many countries and ecomy is struggling.

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(With inputs from AP)