US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that it was closing northern borders with Canada because of the coronavirus and was discouraging any non-essential travel between the borders. And now, The US plans to shutter its shared borders with Mexico. US Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo said on Thursday he was working with his Mexican counterpart on travel restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
US Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar, whose district sits on the border in south Texas, said he had spoken with the border officials who said possible restrictions would be limited to non- essential travel.
March 29, 2020
Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon and Pompeo talked about ways to reduce public health risks to both communities and ways to reduce the adverse impact the COVID-19 crisis is having on the economy and to continue essential cross-border commerce and trade." As per an anonymous source Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is concerned about the economic impact of border restrictions with his country already in recession.
According to official sources, the restrictions would be similar to those adopted by US and Canada. Discussions between the officials are still on to finalise these border restrictions.
The US state department also asked citizens not to travel abroad. In the meantime, Wuhan in China, which was the epicentre of the COVID-19, reported no new cases on Wednesday. The Governor of the state of California ordered the entire state into lockdown.
In US, nearly 12,000 confirmed cases of the disease have surfaced in the United States with 199 deaths.
