Mexico could consider taking measures at U.S. border to slow coronavirus

Record ID: 1463866

  • Title: Mexico could consider taking measures at U.S. border to slow coronavirus
  • Date: 13th March 2020
  • Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (MARCH 13, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT SHOPPING CENTRE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SHOPPER, ANDREA TINOCO, SAYING: "I am buying my standard list of things as well as other items in case there is a quarantine imposed." VARIOUS OF CUSTOMERS AT SUPERMARKET CUSTOMER LOADING ITEMS INTO BACK OF CAR TROLLEY WITH ITEMS
  • Embargoed: 27th March 2020 21:22
  • Keywords: Mexico U.SA. border coronavirus outbreak panic buying virus
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA003C4W15XJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: As panic buying spreads to Mexico, Mexico City told media on Friday (March 13) that it would consider mechanisms to control the flow of people entering the country from the United States in an effort to limit coronavirus, if necessary, deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said.
    Mexico has so far confirmed 15 cases of coronavirus with no deaths, a fraction of the more than 1,000 cases in the United States, where dozens of people have died. That has led some in Mexico to see contagion from the United States as a threat.
    There are now some 135,000 cases and more than 4,900 deaths form coronavirus recorded in 125 countries and regions, according to a Reuters tally at 0200 GMT on Friday (March 13). Experts say many more cases are either unreported or undetected.
    (Production: Carlos Carrillo, Rodolfo Pena Roja, Paul Vieira)
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