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  • Milan, New York, New Delhi, Madrid

  • just a few of the many global cities

  • that are shut down to prevent the coronavirus pandemic.

  • And then, there’s Mexico City.

  • Here, off the bustling Paseo de la Reforma,

  • there’s an unsettling sense of normalcy.

  • Flight attendants, newly arrived from

  • the United States, walk around carefree.

  • “I think on the one hand, it’s refreshing for us

  • because were coming from a place that’s

  • taking extreme precautions.

  • We are on a petri dish most of the time,

  • so I might already be exposedmore likely on the plane

  • than probably here.”

  • Mexico has documented four deaths from Covid-19.

  • One man died after attending a large music concert.

  • Doctors say the virus is already

  • spreading in the community.

  • We don’t have tests, so we are

  • having low numbers of patients that are infected.”

  • Dr. Francisco Moreno oversees nine Covid patients

  • at Mexico City’s ABC Hospital.

  • He’s self-isolating, so I interviewed him remotely.

  • Do you think Mexico could be as bad as Italy?”

  • But Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuelpez Obrador,

  • has continued to say there is no cause for alarm,

  • and resists the measures other countries have taken

  • to slow the virus’s spread.

  • This was his message in early March.

  • pez Obrador, also known as AMLO,

  • has continued to hold political rallies

  • around Mexico, shaking hands and hugging admirers.

  • Other government officials may encourage social distancing,

  • but he asks people to go out and spend their pesos.

  • But according to a recent O.E.C.D. report,

  • Mexico has fewer nurses and fewer intensive care

  • beds per capita than Italy, South Korea and the U.S.

  • A count of ventilators in state facilities

  • revealed only about 2,050 machines

  • in the entire country.

  • International leaders have criticized

  • pez Obrador’s response to the crisis as irresponsible.

  • The president of El Salvador even

  • begged Mexico, via Twitter, to take more drastic measures

  • so as not to become the next epicenter of the pandemic.

Milan, New York, New Delhi, Madrid

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