Human tissue, other medical waste dumped in woods, warehouse

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Hospital waste dumped outside Mexico City.

Amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic, federal authorities announced on Monday that they had found large quantities of human tissue and other medical waste dumped in woods outside Mexico City and leaky hospital bags crammed into a warehouse in Puebla.

The environmental protection agency Profepa said that 3.5 tonnes of hospital waste was found in a forested area of the México state municipality of Nicolás Romero. It said it supervised the removal and disposal of the hazardous and infectious waste between May 4 and 11.

Environmental authorities in México state first reported in mid-April that hospital waste including partially-incinerated human tissue had been dumped on a hillside in Nicolás Romero, located about 40 kilometers northwest of central Mexico City.

Profepa said it had filed a criminal complaint with the federal Attorney General’s Office against whoever was responsible for the illegal dumping.

The scene found at a warehouse in the Puebla municipality of Cuautinchán was also a grotesque and grisly one.

Some 6,000 cubic meters of medical waste was piled to the ceiling of a clandestine warehouse in the municipality, located about 30 kilometers southeast of Puebla city. Plastic hospital waste bags were crammed so tightly into the metal warehouse that its walls were bulging and collapsing, the Associated Press reported.

Profepa said that blood and other bodily fluids were leaking onto the floor of the warehouse, whose refrigerated sections were out of order.

“This company’s improper handling [of the waste] represents a direct environmental and public health risk,” the agency said, explaining that most of it will have to be incinerated.

As the Covid-19 pandemic grows, specialized waste incinerators are being inundated with used personal protective equipment and dangerous hospital waste. The situation appears to have led unscrupulous operators to dispose of hazardous medical waste illegally.

Another problem generated by the pandemic is the accumulation of used, potentially contaminated coffins at Mexico City’s overburdened crematoriums.

In recent years, some 100,000 coffins were reused annually after disinfection, according to data from the Senate, but the coronavirus pandemic has put an end to the practice because people are fearful that infectious fluids may have leaked into them from body bags containing deceased Covid-19 patients.

With no market for used coffins, piles of them have accumulated at crematoriums in the capital, where there are three-day backlogs of bodies, according to a report by British media organization Sky News.

A report published Monday by the anti-graft group Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity said that death certificates indicate that there have been more than 4,500 coronavirus-related deaths in the capital, more than three times the number reported by authorities.

Source: AP (en), Notimex (sp)

People are getting out more in 27 states as new virus cases hit a record

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Confirmed Covid-19 cases as of Tuesday evening. milenio

More people are leaving their homes more regularly even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen: the number of new Covid-19 cases recorded yesterday was the highest ever.

Ricardo Cortés, general director of health promotion at the Health Ministry, presented cell phone data at Tuesday night’s coronavirus press briefing that showed that mobility increased in 27 of Mexico’s 32 states in the week to May 14 compared to the previous week.

Compiled by the National Council of Science and Technology using information from Google, Facebook and Twitter, the data showed that mobility increased by more than 3% in 14 states, while it rose by 3% or less in 13 states.

Aguascalientes recorded the biggest increase, with mobility levels spiking 11% in the second week of May.

“What this could mean in terms of the local epidemic in Aguascalientes is an increase in the number of cases or vital activity in the near future,” Cortés said.

Columns 2 and 4 show the number of cases and deaths recorded each day since May 2. Columns 3 and 5 indicate total cases and deaths. milenio

Baja California Sur and Colima recorded the next biggest increases, with people’s movement up by just over 8% in both states. The other states where mobility increased by more than 3% in the second week of May were Michoacán, Baja California, Durango, Morelos, Sonora, Hidalgo, Chihuahua, Yucatán, Nuevo León, Tabasco and Campeche.

The only states where mobility decreased in the second week of May compared to the previous week were Querétaro, Zacatecas, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Nayarit. However, the decreases were minimal, ranging from 1% in Querétaro to 4% in Nayarit.

Earlier in the press briefing, Director of Epidemiology José Luis Alomía reported 2,713 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 – the biggest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic – and 334 additional fatalities, the second highest daily death toll.

Mexico’s accumulated case tally now stands at 54,346 while the official coronavirus death toll is 5,666.

Alomía said that there are also 29,450 suspected Covid-19 cases and that 185,775 people have now been tested. Of the confirmed cases, 11,767 are considered active, he said.

Mexico City has now recorded more than 15,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, of which 3,032 are active. México state ranks second for both total and active cases, with 9,002 of the former and 1,426 of the latter.

Tabasco, Veracruz and Baja California have the third, fourth and fifth biggest active outbreaks, respectively. However, active cases in Tabasco decreased by 19 on Tuesday to 619.

Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Morelos and Campeche also recorded decreases in the size of their active outbreaks.

The daily death toll spiked sharply on Tuesday, up 115% compared to the 155 fatalities reported on Monday and 153% compared to the 132 reported on Sunday. Mexico’s coronavirus fatality rate is currently 10.4 per 100 confirmed cases.

In addition to the 5,666 confirmed Covid-19 deaths, 733 fatalities are suspected to have been caused by the disease, Alomía said.

Almost 45% of the confirmed deaths have occurred in just three states: Mexico City, Baja California and México state. The capital has recorded 1,452 coronavirus-related deaths, while more than 500 Covid-19 patients have died in both Baja California and México state.

Across the country, 22 minors have died after testing positive for Covid-19, according to Health Ministry data. Among those who lost their lives to the disease were 11 babies aged 2 or less.

Source: Milenio (sp), Reforma (sp)

Proposal to allow stats agency to measure everyone’s wealth meets resistance

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Morena party leader Ramírez has run into widespread opposition to his proposal. — Morena party leader Ramírez has run into widespread opposition to his idea.

A proposal from Mexico’s ruling party to allow national statistics agency personnel to enter people’s homes as part of efforts to measure their wealth has been met with widespread and firm resistance.

Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, national president of the Morena party, announced a proposal on Monday that seeks to give the statistics agency, Inegi, greater powers to measure wealth in Mexico. Ramírez said on Twitter that the aim was to “find out the true dimensions of inequality …”

He said that Inegi must be able to enter people’s homes to review their “real estate assets” and have access to their tax records and bank accounts “without any legal impediment.”

Under the proposal, the autonomous federal department would report on the assets held by all Mexicans every two years. Ramírez stressed in an interview that the intent was not to expropriate assets from the nation’s wealthy but merely to get a better picture of the distribution of wealth in the country.

But the proposal appears doomed to fail after President López Obrador – Morena’s founder – rejected it at his morning news conference on Tuesday.

“I don’t believe it’s right. The wealth of business people and all Mexicans has to be kept private,” he said, adding that only public servants have the obligation to declare their assets.

“I don’t believe that this proposal is advisable. So that there is not so much inequality, the best thing is for the government to help the majority of Mexicans to slowly ascend the social ladder,” López Obrador said.

“Corruption is the main cause of economic and social inequality. If there is no corruption, there won’t be inequality and there won’t be this large accumulation of resources in the hands of a few while the majority lacks the most essential things. But this [isn’t achieved] by … demanding that people say how much they have,” he said.

Ramírez’s proposal was also rejected by a range of people in academia, economics, business and politics.

National Autonomous University (UNAM) law academic Diego Valadés said that if the proposal became law, “the Mexican state would become a police state.”

“I prefer to believe that the proposal is an unpremeditated mistake,” and not a planned attack on democracy, he told the newspaper El Financiero.

Another UNAM law academic, María del Pilar Hernández, said the proposal is “unconstitutional” and agreed that it is reminiscent of something a police state would do. Neither the constitution nor federal laws allow for Inegi to be turned into an auditor, she said.

Gabriel Casillas, president of the economic studies committee of the Mexican Institute of Financial Executives, expressed doubt that allowing Inegi to measure people’s wealth would help to reduce inequality, while Raymundo Tenorio, an economist, raised privacy concerns.

The leadership of three opposition parties – the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the National Action Party and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) – described Ramírez’s proposal as a distraction and an authoritarian move.

“What Morena is seeking to do is divert attention from national problems and criticism of the president,” said Ángel Ávila, national president of the PRD.

“Granting Inegi the powers of a Soviet commission to assess the wealth of all people would involve perverting … Inegi and letting it rot,” he said.

Before López Obrador’s denunciation of the proposal, Morena’s leader in the Senate stressed that the proposal had not been submitted to Congress and that the lawmakers of the ruling party would look at it with caution.

“As a majority we will act with political responsibility and prudence,” Ricardo Monreal said.

On Tuesday afternoon Ramírez said there was never any intention that Inegi representatives would enter people’s homes to gather the data. The information needed is already in the Ministry of Finance databases, he said, vowing to carry on with his proposal by seeking a broad consensus for it, including that of the Morena party.

Source: Reforma (sp), El Financiero (sp)

Nobel prize winner urges use of renewable energy over fossil fuels

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Scientist urges more wind, less oil. — Scientist calls for more wind, less oil.

Just as Mexico moves to give higher priority to electricity produced with petroleum, a Mexican Nobel Prize winner has called for fossil fuel energy generation to be phased out over the next 10 years in favor of renewable energy.

Mario Molina, a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on ozone depletion, said it was irresponsible for governments not to be working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The only way to combat global warming is to replace the use of fossil fuels with renewable resources such as wind and solar, he said during a lecture that was broadcast online on Monday night.

Molina’s remarks came just three days after the federal government published a new energy policy that imposes restrictive measures on the renewable energy sector that could effectively prevent its expansion in Mexico and consolidate control of electrical power in the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).

The publication of the policy came two weeks after the National Energy Control Center (Cenace) announced a plan to use excess fuel oil produced at state oil company refineries to ramp up energy production at old CFE plants.

Mario Molina, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on ozone depletion.

To “improve the reliability of the electricity system” during the coronavirus pandemic, Cenace also announced a suspension of trials that allowed wind farms and solar parks to provide power to the national grid.

While the government appears intent on limiting renewable energy generation, Molina said the sector’s growth is essential in order to combat climate change. Governments should aim to stop using fossil fuels for energy generation by the end of this decade, he said.

The scientist said that governments have to be respectful of international climate agreements and urged them to take energy policy decisions based on scientific advice.

“We have to convince our heads of state and high-level officials of all governments to pay a lot of attention to science and not make decisions based on ideas that are not scientific,” Molina said.

It “makes no sense to promote the use of oil” for energy generation, he said, adding that “using fuel oil is absurd.”

Governments that don’t take steps to phase out the use of fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions are demonstrating “an enormous lack of responsibility” and ethics.

Molina said that the Montreal Protocol, a 1997 international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of substances that cause ozone depletion, should serve as an example for governments in the current quest to stop, or at least slow, global warming.

“[The Montreal Protocol] is solving the problem, that shows us … that we can all work together and I believe that we can do it with the Paris [climate change] Agreement,” he said.

While Mexico’s government is waging a quasi-war on the renewable energy industry – President López Obrador is far more focused on “rescuing” the state-owned electricity and oil companies than tackling climate change – the legal system provides some hope for companies in the sector.

A coalition of business groups said they would “exhaust all legal recourse“ in their attempt to have the new energy policy revoked. Legal efforts have already resulted in five provisional suspension orders.

A federal judge on Monday issued two such orders against the Cenace measures, which will delay the start of at least 28 wind and solar farms that are required to complete trials before they are able to sell electricity to the CFE.

Administrative court judge Rodrigo de la Peza López Figueroa said that delaying the entry into operation of new renewable energy plants would have a negative impact on society and violate free competition rules.

The Cenace measures “could cause an unjustified rise in prices and a reduction in efficiency,” which would have an adverse effect on electricity customers, he said.

On Tuesday, the judge granted three more provisional suspension orders against the Cenace agreement.

Another hearing at which definitive suspension orders against the measures could be granted will be held Friday.

Source: El Universal (sp), Milenio (sp)

24-hour birria hotspot begins slow recovery after first closure in 11 years

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May 19, 2020

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La Terraza in Mexico City's La Guerrero neighborhood.

It seems that only a pandemic can stop Don Chuy and company from stewing the traditional birria from their native Jalisco, and only begrudgingly at that.

The last time La Terraza de Don Chuy closed its doors — literally — was during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. The 24-hour birria spot reopened Monday after a government-enforced 15-day closure to perform a deep-clean of the restaurant and make other preparations for “the new normal”.

Hungry customers normally spill out of the tiny space to crowd around a few rickety tables on the sidewalk, especially in the wee morning hours, as it’s one of very few places in Mexico City’s La Guerrero neighborhood to get a hot meal in the middle of the night.

But in the new normal there are no tables on the sidewalk and yellow tape reading Precaución stretches across the entrance, where a sign announces take-out service only.

Jesús Uribe — Don Chuy to neighbors and regulars — started the restaurant over 40 years ago, initially opening for 20 hours a day. But as demand grew, the family decided they’d better just keep the doors open all night long.

Birria tacos at La Terraza don Don Chuy. — Birria tacos at La Terraza de Don Chuy.

His son Osvaldo Uribe, who has seen two closures and both due to microbial threats, said that “these situations show us that we’re all in the same boat.”

He said that as history has shown, he can depend on his customers to return, just as they can depend on him and his family to be cooking delicious food all night long, at least to the extent government that health regulations allow.

Currently only serving at 20-30% of normal capacity, they have adjusted their purchasing in order to be able to continue to offer freshly cooked meals. This has lowered costs while maintaining the quality that brought Mario and a coworker in search of their first bites of Don Chuy’s birria in over two weeks.

“I kept checking on Facebook, and finally they said they’d be open today,” said Mario while Osvaldo bagged their order.

Osvaldo Uribe’s tone strongly suggested that without the government order to close they would have continued to serve his father’s stewed beef and goat meat tacos as usual, but they were happy to comply and will continue to do so until things return to normal.

“It’s a slow process, but we’re grateful for the benefit they’ve given us of being able to open up at a limited capacity,” he says, adding that both the family and the employees are glad to reopen.

“It’s like a first step back to normality. This is a difficult situation, but we’re all trying our best to see that it passes as quickly as possible,” he said.

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1,100 cruise ship crew stuck in Vallarta awaiting government permission to leave

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May 19, 2020

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The Koningsdam, on which more than 1,100 workers are stranded in Puerto Vallarta.

After more than two months at sea, Dr. Marco Antonio Espinosa Andaluz and 19 other Mexican crew members were finally able to disembark from the Holland America cruise ship Koningsdam in Puerto Vallarta on Sunday after he posted a Twitter message asking the government for permission to leave the ship.

However, more than 1,100 other crew members from eight different ships, representing some 70 nationalities, remain aboard the vessel.

Despite no reported cases of the coronavirus, no country wants to allow them to leave the ship to return home to their families.

Among those trapped on the Koningsdam is Joana Abreu Ferreira, a young Portuguese woman who says that she has been adhering to all directives from her captain, including using a mask, social distancing, having her temperature taken twice daily, and other isolation measures for the past 80 days.

“Our company has been doing everything in their power to keep us safe and healthy, and to send us back home to our families,” Abreu says, but the crew has yet to receive government clearance to leave the ship.

“I personally don’t understand what harm can we cause to the country considering we don’t have a single case of Covid-19 on our ship,” she wrote. “After all, we are just human beings trying to get home to our families and loved ones.”

The extended period of isolation at sea and uncertain future has taken its toll among crew members, Abreu wrote on her Facebook page. Four people from other ships have committed suicide, she says.

And there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight for those awaiting repatriation. Many of the crew members are from countries whose borders remain closed due to the pandemic.

The Miami Herald newspaper estimated Sunday that there are more than 100,000 crew members stranded on cruise ships around the world.

“We should be the ones afraid to go into the world, considering we are living in a place with zero cases and going to a place with millions,” argues Abreu, “but instead it’s the world that is afraid of us.”

Source: Excélsior (sp)

Mexico City registry lists 4,500 deaths in which Covid-19 was possible cause

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May 19, 2020

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Death certificate data reviewed by an anti-corruption organization. In this case, the causes of death of a 46-year-old included Covid-19.

Covid-19 was listed as the confirmed, suspected or possible cause of death on 4,577 death certificates issued in Mexico City between March 18 and May 12, according to an anti-graft group, a figure more than four times higher than the number of coronavirus fatalities reported by authorities in the period.

Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) said in a report Monday that it gained access to a database of death certificates issued in the capital during the eight-week period.

Attached to 4,577 of them were notes about the cause of death which mentioned SARS-CoV-2 – the technical name of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 – COV, Covid-19, new coronavirus, coronavirus or NCOV, MCCI said.

The group said that Covid-19 was listed as the suspected or possible cause of death on 3,209 certificates. Other causes of death including pneumonia, respiratory failure, septic shock and multiple organ failure were listed on the same certificates.

MCCI said that 1,045 death certificates listed Covid-19 as a cause without specifying whether the fatality was suspected or confirmed to have been caused by the disease, while 323 certificates said that the new coronavirus was confirmed to have caused the death.

Until May 12, Mexico City and federal authorities had only reported 937 confirmed Covid-19 deaths in the capital, one-fifth the number indicated by the death certificates.

By the same date, the authorities had reported an additional 123 deaths in Mexico City that were suspected to have been caused by the disease but the combined figure of 1,060 represents less than a quarter of the deaths to which the MCCI report refers.

If all of the suspected and confirmed Covid-19 fatalities listed on the Mexico City death certificates were added to the nationwide death toll, the number would increase to almost 9,000, nearly 70% higher than the 5,332 confirmed deaths reported by the Health Ministry on Monday.

The Associated Press said that Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum didn’t respond to requests for comments about the MCCI report but she posted a table to Twitter early on Tuesday that showed that there have been 1,381 confirmed coronavirus fatalities in the capital. She has previously denied that the Mexico City death figures published by the federal government are incorrect but last week established a committee to analyze coronavirus fatalities in the capital.

The MCCI report was published 10 days after a New York Times report that claimed there have been three times as many Covid-19 fatalities in the capital than the federal government has publicly acknowledged and five days after a Sky News report that claimed that the coronavirus death toll in Mexico City is five times higher than official data shows.

The Wall Street Journal also published a report that said that the federal government is underreporting deaths because “many patients aren’t being tested for the virus, even if they die.”

In its report, MCCI published extracts from some of the death certificates it saw and asserted that, “in the same way as the foreign press said,” the certificates indicate an underreporting of coronavirus-related deaths.

Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell, the federal government’s coronavirus point man, rejected the foreign media reports in a video message on May 9 and explained that a committee of medical specialists analyzes cases in which suspected Covid-19 patients die without being tested.

If the committee determines that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that a death was caused by Covid-19, the fatality is added to the official tally. However, it is unclear how long the process takes.

The foreign media reports have angered President López Obrador, who singled out the Times as lacking ethics. The president also views MCCI with disdain, and has accused the group of being for rather than against corruption.

Founded by Claudio X. Gonzaléz, a lawyer, activist and son of a business magnate and outspoken critic of López Obrador, MCCI has been highly critical of the federal government, accusing it of corruption and joining a collective that launched legal action against its airport project north of Mexico City.

Source: El Economista (sp), The Associated Press (en)

Can Mexico expect killer hornets? No, says UNAM scientist

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May 19, 2020

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The killer hornet that has crossed the Pacific Ocean.

The killer hornets that have been sighted in the western United States and Canada will not make their way to Mexico, according to a biologist at the National Autonomous University (UNAM).

Entomologist Alejandro Zaldívar Riverón said that the insect has not even established itself in the two countries to the north, and there is reason to fear it might come down to Mexico.

“It’s ridiculous to suppose that it would travel south and arrive in Mexico,” said the hornets, bees, wasps and ants specialist.

He said the reports of killer hornets in the United States were mere isolated incidents of specimens that made their way across the Pacific in merchandise shipped from Asia.

Alarm arose when a nest of killer hornets was found on Vancouver Island, Canada, but it was immediately destroyed, and Zaldívar called the fears of its proliferation unfounded, as are any that it could migrate hundreds of miles south.

“We must not forget that every animal and plant species has certain ecological requirements, and according to the environmental characteristics of the areas where this hornet is naturally distributed, it’s unlikely that it will establish itself in Canada or the northern United States, and later cross arid zones and deserts before arriving in our territory,” he said.

This particular species, like the over 20 other species in the genus Vespa, is naturally distributed in subtropical zones in Asia and a few in Europe.

One note in news reports has been that the large hornets are predators that appear to have a sweet tooth for honeybees, which are the primary pollinators in most ecosystems.

Zaldívar called for people not to panic and, above all, not to kill regular honeybees out of unfounded fears of killer hornets.

Source: Reporte Índigo (sp)

Quintana Roo government rejects June 1 reopening by hotels

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May 19, 2020

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Cancún's empty beaches will remain that way for now.

The government of Quintana Roo has quashed the hopes of optimistic Quintana Roo hotels that expected to reopen on June 1.

Tourism Minister Marisol Vanegas Pérez burst a few bubbles when she said that “it’s not true that they’ll be able to reopen, since the companies themselves don’t determine that, nor the market. It will be the federal and state governments.”

She added that the only hotels that should be open for the foreseeable future are those providing service for people carrying out activities deemed essential during the coronavirus pandemic.

Swimming pools, gyms, spas and other tourist services will remain closed until conditions allow, as reopening early could lead to “disastrous [public health] situations,” Vanegas said.

Although she could not give a specific date, Vanegas did say that they can expect to begin to return to something resembling normal sometime in June.

“Yes, they’ll be able to open in a preparatory fashion by means of a health certification issued by the Quintana Roo government, which will be voluntary and not obligatory. The main objective is for businesses to be prepared to return to activities on a still unspecified date in June,” she said.

The certification will be a means by which hotels and other businesses can assure customers that they have minimized the risks of coronavirus transmission as much as possible within their facilities.

So far companies like Xcaret, AM Resorts, Hard Rock, Mayakoba, Royalton, Temptation, Coral Princess and Fiesta Americana Cozumel, among others, have announced June 1 reopenings.

Governor Carlos Joaquín González also said the state is not ready to reinitiate tourism activities due to the high number of Covid-19 cases.

“We’re still not ready. We must follow the guidelines for having a gradual return. The recommendation continues to be: remain at home,” he said.

Source: El Economista (sp)

Protocols readied for reopening of restaurants in Mexico City

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May 19, 2020

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Dining protocols in Mexico City: 1. Disinfectant. 2. Maximum 10 persons per table. 3. No serviette dispensers or decorations. 4. Digital, disposable or blackboard menu. 5. Single-use tablecloth. 6. Individual salsa bowls. 7. Electronic payment. 8. Children's areas closed. milenio

Restaurants in Mexico City are preparing for “the new normal” and the strict sanitary guidelines — the mandatory use of masks and a reduced number of diners — that reopening safely will require.

Last week the national restaurant association, Canirac, announced its “Mesa Segura” (“Safe Table”) program, a set of protocols all restaurants in Mexico are asked to follow once the quarantine is lifted.

Mexico City has around 45,000 restaurants that have been forced to fully or partially close due to the coronavirus, and Canirac estimates that lost revenue total 48 billion pesos (US $2.03 billion).

Nationwide, Canirac predicts 100,000 restaurants will be permanently shuttered and 300,000 jobs lost.

Restaurants will be disinfected and employees will have their temperatures taken upon starting and ending their shifts. Masks are mandatory and cell phone use by employees will be prohibited.

Canirac recommends that restaurants operate at 30% of their capacity and limit groups of diners to 10. Table linens must be changed after each party, condiments must be served in individual portions and disposable or digital menus are encouraged. Buffets must have a sneeze guard and should be attended by an employee who will serve diners and make sure they practice social distancing. Children’s play areas are to be closed.

Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will announce reopening plans for the nation’s capital on Wednesday, which will likely come in measured phases. Mexico City is still under the Ministry of Health’s “red light” coronavirus warning system, with 14,566 confirmed cases of the virus.

Source: Milenio (sp)