MEXICO CITY: Mexico's government said on Friday (Feb 28) it had detected the first cases of Covid-19 (coronavirus) infection in two men who had recently travelled to Italy, making the country the second in Latin America to register the 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.
Lopez Obrador urged the population to remain calm and said officials would report daily on the progress of cases.Mexico's main stock index tumbled more than 3% soon after market opening on Friday while the peso fell by more than 1% against the dollar. The two were being held in isolation, one in a hospital and the other in a hotel in Sinaloa, Lopez-Gatell said.
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