Mexico:  Coronavirus

Yesterday in a press conference in Mexico City Hugo Lopez-Gatell, Sub-secretary of Health, reassured the nation that there are as yet no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Mexico.  Eighteen persons with suspicious symptoms have been tested and all have been found without the disease.  He asserted that a number of protocols have been put into place to prevent the spread of the virus, including protocols in all of the major airports of the country.  Brazil, meanwhile, has just confirmed one case of coronavirus in that country, contracted by a Brazilian who returned from a visit to Italy.  Until the confirmed case in Brazil, Latin America had been spared of the disease, which has spread largely in the Northern hemisphere.