Mexico confirms first coronavirus cases in two men returned from Italy

Reuters ^ | February 28, 2020 | by Daina Beth Solomon, Lizbeth Diaz

[Oldeconomybuyer]

MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s government said on Friday it had detected the first cases of coronavirus infection in two men who had recently traveled to Italy, making the country the second in Latin America to register the fast-spreading virus.

A 35-year-old man who showed positive in an initial test in Mexico City went through a second test that turned up positive results early on Friday, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell Ramirez told a regular news conference.

The man was linked to the second case, a 41-year-old in the northern state of Sinaloa, Lopez-Gatell told reporters, speaking alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Lopez Obrador urged the population to remain calm.

“We have the capacity to handle this situation,” he said. “Because according to the information available, this is not something terrible, really bad.”

Both of the men confirmed with coronavirus were in Italy for about a week in mid-February, and likely became infected at a convention in the northern city of Bergamo, the government said.

The two were being held in isolation, one in a hospital and the other in a hotel in Sinaloa, Lopez-Gatell said.

The Mexico City resident had light, cold-like symptoms and was at low risk, he added. Officials were observing five of his family members in isolation.

The man in Sinaloa did not show symptoms, Sinaloa’s health minister Efren Encinas said at a separate news conference.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This might be a good time to SHUT DOWN the damned border.

[RoseofTexas]

YES!! Close it DOWN!!!

[janetjanet998]

We aren’t even screening flights from Italy..

Many countries are importing cases from there

Pathetic

[Bitman]

Wondered when it would show up there...

[EinNYC]

BUILD THE WALL. Shut down the border. Round up and deport any and all illegals, from 30K feet if necessary. Our economy would explode even more if we didn’t have to pay for all these stinking thieves, many of which carry diseases.

[Meatspace]

Two cases in Mexico.

60 cases in the U.S.

[Jewbacca]

Border security IS Corona virus security.

The USA can weather this virus.

The slums of Mexico? Not so much.

[livius]

I’m more concerned about the filthy “homeless” slums filling up our Dem cities. They need breaking up and massive sanitation measures.

[Mariner]

All US ports of entry should be closed and all CBP/ICE personnel deployed to patrol the border.

Border states should deploy their National Guard forces to the border too, and if they won’t, those forces should be nationalized.

At least until the full risk can be identified.

Spread in Mexico and Central America would send millions to the US border seeking help and escape.

[353FMG]

FINISH THAT WALL!!!

[Jewbacca]

That’s stage two.

Interestingly, in the Walking Dead, whatever happened first happened among the bums/drug addicts of LA.

[null and void]

Canada AND Mexico?

We're surrounded!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[RasterMaster]

Coronavirus fear sparks boycott of Corona BEER as survey finds 38% of Americans say they now won’t drink the lage

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8056489/Coronavirus-fear-sparks-boycott-Corona-BEER-survey-finds-38-say-wont-drink-lager.html

Avoid cause it’s wizz water...not the name.

[grey_whiskers]

Hey, it started with ONE case in China.

[sauropod]

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