‘We Call for Calm’: Mexico’s Restrained Response to the Coronavirus

 

‘We Call for Calm’: Mexico’s Restrained Response to the Coronavirus

MEXICO CITY — Before she made a beeline for the soccer match this end of the week, Gabriela Gómez considered the matter of the coronavirus and its transmissibility in swarms. 

In any case, she wasn't going to give fears of a worldwide pandemic stand access the method for seeing an uncommon minute: For the first run through since the establishing of Mexico's ladies' expert class, two of its groups were playing in Mexico City's milestone University Olympic Stadium. 

"Stress? Indeed, there's stress," Ms. Gómez said as she sat with her niece on the solid cheap seats watching Pumas play their crosstown adversaries Cruz Azul on Saturday. "In any case, you have a ton of fun." 

Indeed, even as sports associations around the globe suspended their seasons a week ago, Mexico's top soccer class, Liga MX, and its ladies' partner, Liga MX Femenil, played on, making them an uncommon exemption among a considerable lot of the world's significant games alliances, and the entirety of its greatest soccer groups. 

Liga MX said it was submitting its general direction to the central administration of Mexico, which has so far received a moderately controlled way to deal with the infection, in correlation with different countries in the area.