A general view shows an almost empty beach after hotel occupancy rates plunged to single digits this week following the measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) in Cancun, Mexico April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Delgado
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's deputy health minister said on Thursday there are no plans for border closures even as the country's death toll from the coronavirus jumped to 50 from 37 a day earlier.
"There's no plan, because there's no intention to use the border closure mechanism as if it were a useful mechanism for controlling the epidemic," the deputy minister, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, said during his regular evening news conference.
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