World News | Mexico Begins Reopening Even as Cases, Deaths Remain High
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Mexico City, Jun 16 (AP) Mexico began more re-openings of businesses shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, even as deaths and new cases continued at an unbroken pace.
The Health Department said total confirmed cases rose by 3,427 to 150,264, and confirmed deaths rose by 439 to 17,580. Both numbers are clearly undercounts.
Federal health officials have said Mexico is on a sort of a plateau and there is no clear evidence of any sustained decrease in cases. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday that greater Mexico City, which has been worst-hit by the coronavirus, was seeing “a slight decrease, not as much as we would like, but it is now declining.”
The new numbers came on Monday as officials in Baja California Sur announced a partial re-opening of tourist resorts. Cancun already partly reopened last week.
The tourism secretary of Baja California Sur, Luis Humberto Araiza, trumpeted Monday that the state's tourism industry “is back,” even though hotels, restaurants and beaches will be allowed to operate at only 30 per cent capacity.
In the Baja California Sur resort of Los Cabos, beaches began opening on Monday with limited hours. Police officers stationed at the El Medano beach Cabo San Lucas told the first bathers “please maintain your distance,” as the sandy expanse opened from 10 am to 6 pm.
Some sunbathers were scattered over the resort's most popular beach, though nothing like the times before the coronavirus pandemic.
More importantly for the economy of the twin resorts, restaurants were allowed to open as were sports fishing charters, but with capacity restriction.
"People should continue complying with sanitary measure like face masks, using hand sanitising gel, keeping a safe distance and taking temperatures outside businesses," said Los Cabos Health Director Adán Monroy.
However, local union leader Esteban Vargas Juárez said only about 35 per cent of the resort's tourism employees were back at work. (AP) IJT 06160714 NNNN the league shutting down earlier.
Lyon argued that the table was unfair because teams had not played the same amount of games home and away or met the same opponents. It said the league should be declared void if it can't be resumed.
Ligue 1's director Didier Quillot sat across from Aulas at a sometimes heated hearing and defended the LFP's decision.
“We acted with pragmatism,” he said.
Aulas argued that missing out on European competition would impact finances and weaken Lyon's presence in the transfer market. Lyon can still qualify for the Europa League if it beats PSG in the League Cup final — which was not canceled.
A lawyer for Lyon said that the health situation could have improved between April 30 and late May, while the league repeated it was only acting on government orders. Quillot also said it was not possible to delay the start of the new season on Aug. 23, in part because of a new TV rights contract with broadcaster Mediapro.
Aulas argued that next season could begin in mid-September in line with the Spanish league. (AP)
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