Health Officials in Mexico Concerned about Free Zone Traffic

Rafael Angulo Aguilar

Health officials in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo have watched with concern the reopening of the Corozal Commercial Free Zone. The Mexican authorities estimate that about three thousand persons visited the zone on the day of the reopening. It is unclear, at this time, whether the state’s shift to high-risk status starting Monday will affect travel to zone; but the health officials across the border have plans to beef up their surveillance. 

Dr. Rafael Angulo Aguilar, Jesus Cumate Rodriguez Hospital, Quintana Roo

“It is a very, very high risk for everyone not just for you o for us and vice versa. Our secretary of health, Alejandra Guerra, she was talking implementing a health not method, health intervention for those people are planning to go to the free zone or are entrepreneurs and have their businesses in there. There are going to be some public filters in that town right across the border, I don’t remember the name. And in case any of them present any symptoms. They are going to be in that town.”