Critics of Mexico's federal government have said much of the strain on the country's health care system has been due to a lax response to the outbreak.
pandemic rages on, cemetery workers know the bodies will continue to come. Digging graves may feel like one of the few things they can control.For the families of the COVID-19 victims, their farewells have been cut short. Like in the United States, there are significant restrictions in Mexico for thoseGuadalupe Ortiz Hernandez recently lost her husband, Angel Misael, of 23 years. She said he used to love to sing and play music, but that he had a history of health problems that led to his death.
"If it had been [COVID-19], I wouldn't be standing here and neither would his mother. We shared his food, we held hands, we talked to each other. He sang. His kids were there," she said.Hernandez said that burying him under these unprecedented circumstances -- in a burial pit reserved for COVID-19 patients -- has been"difficult."
Most of the newly turned graves in Cemetery No. 12 are from just a two-week period at the end of April. All the while, tensions continue to rise as the coronavirus continues to claim lives across the country. The country's capital, Mexico City, is now its national epicenter. Mexico's chief epidemiologist, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, has become a household name through his daily briefings on the virus. He said the pressure of it all is"intense."
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