Major Mexican tourist destination at 'imminent risk' of lockdown
In a major announcement last week, the governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo warned that the state had seen five straight weeks of increased COVID-19 rates following last month’s spring holidays. The dramatically rising case numbers led him to warn that Mexico’s number one tourist destination is at risk of “imminent” lockdown, according to the Associated Press.
“Rates in most of the rest of Mexico have been declining,” reported the A.P., “but Quintana Roo depends on tourism for 87% of its economic activity, and has instituted no travel bans or testing requirements.”
Home to major resort destinations, including Cancún, Cozumel and Tulum, Quintana Roo has had some of the highest rates of international tourism anywhere in the world, with U.S. Americans, in particular, swarming its beaches and relatively lax enforcement of COVID-19 masking and distancing protocols.
In a May 14 tweet, Gov. Carlos Joaquín wrote that the municipality of Benito Juárez, where Cancún is located, now has the highest number of positive cases since the pandemic began. "This is worrying," he wrote in Spanish.
Read more: https://www.lmtonline.com/life/travel/article/Cancun-tulum-Mexico-COVID19-danger-lockdown-16190897.php
(Laredo Morning Times)
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