August 14 – The SEP releases its 2020-2021 calendar with 190 days of classes. The directors of INSABI, IMSS and ISSSTE also participated.
[54], President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has continued to hold rallies, be tactile with crowds, and downplay the threat of coronavirus to health and the economy. [185], Ford Motor Company, Honda and Audi closed their manufacturing plants in Mexico on March 18. A 57-year-old man, who had recently come back from a trip all across Europe, was placed under quarantine. [88], The Catholic Church in Mexico reported on September 4 a total of 77 priests, seven permanent deacons, and four other religious people have died of COVID-19. The health and energy sectors, the oil industry, and public services such as water supply, waste management and public safety continued to function. [35][36] Authorities in Jalisco are concerned about a group of 400 people who recently returned from Vail, Colorado; 40 people have symptoms of COVID-19. [157], In mid-March, retailers in the border city of Tijuana experienced shortages of water and toilet paper as Americans from southern California began crossing the border to panic-buy these items. The government announced that it would continue receiving. President López Obrador issued a decree to abolish 100 public trusts related to science and culture; the. The article criticized the way that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been handling the pandemic citing the lack of testing done and the fact that the government has been hiding the real number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. [181] Cinépolis and Cinemex announced that they will temporarily close all of their theaters starting March 25. 15 julio, 2020. He also said that they will purchase 25,000 testing kits. The reduction in international air travel has made it easier for authorities to track planes used for transporting illegal drugs. The SCHP announced it was taking measures to prevent a 0.5% fall in GDP.

Cuéntame de México", "Mexico's covid-19 contingency plan: three key phases to fight the coronavirus outbreak", "Covid-19: mexico has entered the second phase of its contingency plan", "Mexico enters Phase 3 of its contingency plan to fight COVID-19", "Mexico announces 'new normality' in plan to reopen economy", "Regreso a la "nueva normalidad" constará de estas tres fases", "ESTE ES EL SEMÁFORO DEL REGRESO A LA "NUEVA NORMALIDAD, "Historical! Aa+ Aa-Interruptor de Navegación. Mexico imports 65% of its gasoline. [97] Reuters reports that Landsteiner Scientific pharmacies will receive 32 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine in November. Taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis, there have been opportunistic people who have sought to loot and have tried to carry out robberies... We know that cell phones, household appliances, liquor, cigarettes and merchandise that are not essential items have been stolen. Watco Companies said that cargo on the Houston Ship Channel for delivery to San Luis Potosí increased 25% in March compared to January. [55], Between May 9 and May 15, 13,000 new cases were confirmed. However, the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) reported two cases of COVID-19 in mid-January 2020 in the states of Nayarit and Tabasco, one case per state. [160] The number of murders has not decreased due to the coronavirus pandemic, and drug cartels are fighting each other in Guerrero and Michoacan.

Classes are suspended and people are encouraged to work from home. Chichén Itzá closed indefinitely starting March 21. [100] Pemex became the company with the most COVID-19 deaths in the world, with 313.
The number of confirmed cases has increased rapidly. [48] Tijuana expects its hospitals to run out of space over the weekend. "[141] 48,000 private schools served 5 million pupils in 2019-2020, 15% of the total student population. Restaurants, churches, movie theaters, and museums may reopen. Therefore, official statistics are likely to greatly underestimate the actual number of cases. April 18 – The Health Ministry says that unclaimed bodies of the deceased related to COVID-19 should not be cremated or buried in common graves, but should be photographed, fingerprinted and buried in marked graves. [260], Mexico Post suspended[when?] March 13 – The National Autonomous University of Mexico suspended in-person classes. Widespread transmission: thousands of cases would have been reported in multiple locations across the country. A gang of 70 people robbed a grocery store in Tecámac, State of Mexico, on March 23, and a gang of 30 looted a supermarket in the city of Oaxaca on March 24. On February 29, a fourth case was detected and confirmed in the city of Torreón, in the state of Coahuila, from a 20-year-old woman who traveled to Italy. [167], On March 17, the Passion Play of Iztapalapa in Mexico City moved to an undisclosed location indoors and televised on April 10. [65] Yucatán and Quintana Roo, states that were pointed out by López-Gatell for their inconsistencies and delayed reporting, said that they were fully complying with what they were asked to report. [26], On March 11, a ninth case was confirmed in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. [106], Federal Deputy Miguel Acundo González (Social Encounter Party) died from COVID-19 on September 16. [267][268], Rumors about a curfew sparked the barricading of streets in San Felipe del Progreso, State of Mexico, on May 8. [80], On August 16, José Luis Alomía, director of Epidemiology of the Secretariat of Health, announced that for the third week in a row, the total number of newly confirmed cases in a week saw a decline and, for the first time, the number of recovered cases in a week surpassed the number of newly confirmed cases. On January 22, 2020, the Secretariat of Health issued a statement saying that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 did not present a danger to Mexico. [53], An article published on The New York Times on May 8 assured that both the federal government and the state government of Mexico City ignored the wave of coronavirus deaths in the capital city. [134] J.D. Shortages of medicine for these diseases were expected soon.

The greatest expenses were in March as the government bought equipment and supplies and began hiring more personnel. Estados Unidos supera los 6 millones de casos de covid-19", "Coronavirus en México | Las noticias más relevantes de los estados este lunes 31 de agosto", "AMLO pide a los partidos dar el 50% de su presupuesto para la vacuna anticovid", "Optimismo económico: Se reactivan 1.5 millones de empleos en el país", "Suman 88 religiosos fallecidos a causa del Covid-19", "Curva del coronavirus en México, hoy 6 de septiembre: ¿Cuántos casos y muertes hay? [84] Six million of those cases are in the United States,[85] and 595,841 are in Mexico. [9][10], The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[11][12] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [128] Inflation slowed to 2.08% during the first half of April, the lowest figure in four years. [111] [20], On March 1, a fifth case was announced in Chiapas in a student who had just returned from Italy. [265] The New York Times reported on May 8 that the federal government is underreporting deaths in Mexico City; the federal government reports 700 deaths in the city while local officials have detected over 2,500. Jul ", "Retan al covid y arman fiestón en hacienda de Aguascalientes", "Expertos de la UNAM crean un método económico y seguro para detectar SARS-CoV-2 con saliva", "Registró Conapred 426 quejas relacionadas con Covid-19", "SRE ha repatriado a 17 mil 393 mexicanos por coronavirus, dice Ebrard", "Son 2 mil 325 mexicanos fallecidos por Covid-19 en EU", "Coahuila rebasa las mil 500 muertes por covid-19", "Se han recuperado 440 mil empleos en sector industrial, pese a crisis por covid-19", "Rusia enviará 32 millones de su vacuna para COVID a México: comenzarán a llegar en noviembre", "Suiza retira a México de lista de países en riesgo por covid-19", "Seis ex secretarios de Salud y su contrapropuesta a la estrategia COVID-19 de López Obrador", "Pemex es la empresa con más muertes por coronavirus en todo el mundo", "México rebasó las 70,000 muertes por COVID-19", "Hospitales públicos reciben cachitos de lotería para sorteo de avión presidencial", "PRD pide a ASF investigar desvío del Insabi a "cachitos" para la rifa del avión", "Conoce a algunos de los ganadores de la rifa del avión presidencial", "Diputado del PES muere por coronavirus; 31 legisladores se han contagiado", "Cierre parcial de frontera con EU se extiende otro mes ante crisis por covid-19: SRE", "La precariedad con la que labora el personal de salud en México lo hizo presa fácil de COVID: Lancet", "Pandemia cuesta 60 mil mdp a México; compra de insumos y contrataciones", "Prensa | Archivo | Secretaría de Salud | Gobierno", "Número de habitantes. 441 cases had been confirmed in China, Thailand, South Korea, and the United States, and a travel advisory was issued on January 9. A general quarantine of the population may become necessary. [105], On September 15, hospitals in Fresnillo, Durango (ISSSTE); Tepic, Nayarit (IMSS); and Charo, Michoacán (IMSS) each won MXN $20 million in the raffle of the presidential plane. Last 15 days, On January 22, 2020, the Secretariat of Health issued a statement saying that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 did not present a danger to Mexico. April 12 – The government established the "National Contingency Center" (Spanish: The government announced on April 16 that it will restrict transportation between areas of the country that are infected with COVID-19 (mostly large cities) and areas that are not infected, without specifying what areas are included or how it will be enforced. The same day, Mexico reported 231,770 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with this Mexico became the tenth country with the most infected people with the virus in the world. Street workers are vulnerable to gang violence and extorsion as well as societal hostility. [73] Mexico occupied sixth place globally in the total number of confirmed cases, with 424,637.

[101], On September 10, Hugo López-Gatell thanked the former health secetaries for their report on the government's response to the pandemic, but questioned the timing and possible political motives, noting that the report had been produced with input from the Citizens' Movement. Mexico City begins to offer online divorces. [27], On March 12, Mexico announced it had a total of 15 confirmed cases, with new cases in Puebla and Durango. [54], More than 100 health workers (doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc.) The government announced that Mexico had entered Phase 3 of its contingency plan. [40], On March 30, the total number of cases of COVID-19 surpassed one thousand with 1,094 confirmed cases and 28 reported deaths in the country. A 35-year-old man and a 59-year-old man in Mexico City and a 41-year-old man in the northern state of Sinaloa tested positive and were held in isolation at a hospital and a hotel, respectively.

[139] Tequila producers plan to stay open. The totals were 42,595 cases, 10,057 active cases, and 4,477 deaths on May 15. [15], On January 30, 2020, before the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization the Government of Mexico designed a Preparation and Response Plan that was made by the National Committee for Health Safety, a working group led by Secretariat of Health composed by different health entities aiming to act upon the imminent arrival of the pandemic. [46], The number of coronavirus cases surges past 10,000 to 10,544 with 970 deaths on April 21. [24] On the same date, 40 members of a dance company in Puebla, returning from a tour in Italy, were quarantined. Approximately 66% of the 4.1 million students enrolled in institutions of higher education attend public schools. [5] As of September 27, there had been 730,317 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexico and 76,430 reported deaths,[6][7] although the Secretariat of Health, through the "Programa Centinela" (Spanish for "Sentinel Program") estimated in mid July 2020 that there were more than 2,875,734 cases in Mexico, because they were considering the total number of cases confirmed as a statistical sample.

A "traffic light" coding system is implemented for the gradual reopening of the country.