{"id":121844,"date":"2021-05-08T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121844"},"modified":"2021-05-08T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:34:55","slug":"mexico-to-ease-capital-lockdown-resume-quake-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121844","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Mexico to ease capital lockdown, resume quake drills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/177894-coronavirus-in-mexico.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/177894-coronavirus-in-mexico-696x384.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Mexican authorities announced Friday a further easing of pandemic lockdown measures in the capital and the resumption of earthquake simulation drills, reflecting a decline in new coronavirus cases and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico City will move next week to yellow status, the second lowest of four under the country\u2019s traffic-light system, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move will ease restrictions on capacity or opening hours for businesses including shops, cinemas, casinos, amusement parks and banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government also announced nationwide plans to restart earthquake and other disaster drills that were suspended last year because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercises, held regularly before the health crisis, aim to prepare the country for the inevitable next major tremor to strike one of the most seismically active regions on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mexico City and other areas of seismic risk, the May 19 drills will simulate an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7, while elsewhere authorities will pick a different type of disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alarms will ring out in the capital, whose warning system using seismic monitors aims to give residents up to two minutes\u2019 warning of earthquakes with epicenters along the Pacific Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico\u2019s official Covid-19 death toll of around 218,000 is one of the highest in the world, and the actual figure is believed to be significantly worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in contrast to many parts of the world, new cases and fatalities have declined since a surge in January that the authorities blamed on social gatherings around the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitalizations for Covid-19 have declined for 16 consecutive weeks, according to the health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mexico City, hospital occupancy has fallen to 16.5 percent, from a peak of 90 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country of 126 million has administered 20.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses, including more than 600,000 on Wednesday \u2014 the most yet in a single day. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Mexican authorities announced Friday a further easing of pandemic lockdown measures in the capital and the resumption of earthquake simulation drills, reflecting a decline in new coronavirus cases and deaths. Mexico City will move next week to yellow status, the second lowest of four under the country\u2019s traffic-light system, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}