As the new coronavirus scare spreads, Mexican officials wary of a repeat of the 2009 swine flu epidemic vow to respond quickly.
In 2009, when swine flu broke out in Mexico, critics accused the government of responding too slowly and allowing the virus to spread farther and faster than it otherwise would have.
A passenger arriving from Beijing walks out of the arrivals gate wearing a face mask at Tijuana International Airport.“At least until today … there has been no coronavirus — that’s a good thing,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters this week. “And we are ready. We are not going to do what was done once before.”
Calderón eventually ordered dramatic steps to curb the spread of the virus, including shutting down schools, restaurants and other public venues, which temporarily transformed downtown Mexico City into a virtual ghost town and subjected the president to criticism that he had gone too far.Mexican students who were evacuated from Wuhan, China, where the new coronavirus outbreak began, arrive in Leon, Mexico, last week.
In one instance, parents in the town of Tetelpa, in Morelos state, demanded that a school principal go into quarantine because they had seen photographs online of the principal greeting her son upon his return from China, where he was studying Mandarin. State health officials determined the principal represented no health risk but said she would nonetheless perform her duties off-campus for a few days.
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