FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, March 17, 2020.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would focus his response to the coronavirus outbreak on helping the poor rather than major companies as the virus spreads in Mexico, and that he would unveil more details on Tuesday.
Officials counted 367 cases on Monday, up from 316 the day before, with a total of four deaths, including two people who had diabetes.
Already, small businesses have begun to reel from the impact across the country, where millions live in poverty.
The poor,” Lopez Obrador told his daily news conference.
“No more rescues in the style of the neo-liberal period, that provided for banks, big companies.
They shouldn’t even be thinking that there will be tax forgiveness or other mechanisms that were used before,” he said. »
