Economics
Mexico to Let Auto Plants to Restart as Covid-19 Toll Rises
- Health council to gradually lift restrictions: health council
- Decision comes amid 10% daily rise in coronavirus deaths
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Mexico’s general health council will add auto manufacturing, construction and mining to its list of essential activities, allowing those sectors to resume operations, according to a tweet by the federal body.
That decision was among four agreements the government council approved to progressively lift Covid-19 containment measures. Mexico suspended non-essential activities including auto and auto parts manufacturing when it declared a national health emergency due to the coronavirus on March 30.