"The medicine available for treating patients is highly effective during the first 72 hours of infection," said the mayor, adding that city policies and the collaboration of residents had checked wider contagion.
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| Workers wearing protective masks wait for a bakery to open in Mexico City April 28, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
City medical centers provided care and advice to more than 12,000 people who claimed to have flu symptoms on Monday, around half of whom had some symptoms but the vast majority did not have swine flu.
The city has ordered all restaurants, bars, cabarets, dance halls, pool halls, cinemas, theaters, gymnasiums and swimming pools be closed. The mayor also announced a 150-million-peso fund which will be used to help families, workers and businesses that have suffered in the outbreak.
In the nation as a whole, swine flu was believed to have killed 149 people and hospitalized 776 others, according to central government statistics. Another 1,070 people were treated for the flu, but were well enough to go home.
