3 nurses strangled in Mexico; border mayor gets coronavirus
09 May, 2020
Police in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila said Friday they found three sisters who worked in the federal government hospital system strangled to death, stirring further alarm in a country where attacks against healthcare workers have been reported in the united states.
Two of the sisters were nurses at the Mexican Social Security Institute and the 3rd was a hospital administrator, but there is no immediate official evidence that the attack was linked to their work.
State police said their strangled bodies were within a house in the town of Torreon, Coahuila. The Social Security Institute said they were killed Thursday.
The National Union of Social Security Employees called the killings were “outrageous and incomprehensible.”
In other areas of Mexico, nurses experienced been hit, kicked off public transport or had cleaning fluids poured on them amid fears they could spread the novel coronavirus.
Mexican health authorities have denounced the attacks and urged medical personnel never to wear uniforms or scrubs on the street in order to avoid being targeted.
Meanwhile, the mayor of the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, announced he previously tested positive for coronavirus.
Mayor Armando Cabada said he previously no symptoms, but Javier Corral, the governor of Chihuahua state, said he was self-isolating as a precaution because he previously contact with Cabada.
At least three of Mexico's 31 state governors have already tested positive for coronavirus.
Ciudad Juarez has been hit hard by coronavirus, with about two-thirds of the state's confirmed cases and 104 of its 125 deaths.
While federal authorities had predicted Mexico's caseload would peak sometime around Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that case numbers may plateau for another 12 days before any possible descent.
“We are in the phase of the best contagion, we are in the peak, and in line with the information we are getting, this could continue before 20th of the month," López Obrador said. "The projection is that from that date, the number of cases would start to fall.
Mexico has almost 30,000 confirmed cases, though officials have estimated the true number could be eight times higher. The united states has seen almost 3,000 deaths.
Source: japantoday.com
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