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Worldwide, just under 47,000 non-immigrant visas were issued in April, a drop from around 400,000 one month prior, according to statistics released by the U.S. State Department. As elsewhere, U.S. diplomatic missions in Mexico are only issuing visas to foreigners for emergency travel situations.
The World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom has stated that countries fighting the coronavirus should “test, test, test.”
Restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada are set to expire on May 21.
Violence in Mexico showed no sign of slacking during April, with 3,020 homicides reported throughout the nation – 100 every 24 hours.
One day after Mexico recorded its highest ever daily Covid-19 death toll (353 on May 12), President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced plans to ease restrictions and reactivate the Mexican economy by allowing some schools,businesses and industries to resume operations.
Since the start of the pandemic, Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 149 medical personnel in Mexico – 122 of them doctors, according to Jose Luis Alomia, the federal health ministry’s director general of epidemiology.
Many Mexicans believed the election of a leftist president in 2018 would finally temper the arrogance of Mexico’s overprivileged business elite.
April saw the loss of 555,247 formal jobs in Mexico, according to data supplied by the Instituto Mexicana de Seguro Social (IMSS).
Juan Ramón Álvarez López, the director of the Preparatoria Regional de Chapala, has accused municipal police of using excess force after he was detained on the evening of Friday, May 1, at an inspection checkpoint set up near the city limits at Chapala Haciendas.
