Mexico’s President Plans to Tour Country Despite Record Virus Deaths

(Bloomberg) -- President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans to resume his travelling next week when he visits several states as Mexico deals with peak numbers of deaths due to Covid-19 and high rates of contagion.

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Lopez Obrador said that while the decision to restart cross-country tours is still pending approval from top health officials, he gave a detailed agenda: he plans to fly to Cancun on Tuesday to hold security and press briefings and launch the first tranche of the Maya Train project. He would then travel to Merida, Campeche, Palenque, Villahermosa and Veracruz.

Other topics

• The federal government plans to reopen the economy on June 1st by allowing some industries to resume activities. Senators from leading party Morena and Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero called on governors to follow the federal government’s guidelines, according to newspaper Excelsior
• Lopez Obrador said health officials will provide more detailed information about the return to activities on Friday
• Lopez Obrador said the Finance Ministry will begin distributing a 60 billion peso contingency fund meant to stabilize state budgets

• The press conference can be seen here

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