Mexico added a new health checkpoint along the US border this weekend as corona virus cases surged on both sides of the dividing line.
Officials fear crossings will occur during the holiday weekend of July 4 can intensify the spread of COVID-19 – Even though the three-month ban on non-essential travel is increasingly being ignored.
“Whichever side of the border you live in, this is NOT the time to cross to shop, eat, or visit family on the other side,” US Ambassador Christopher Landau tweeted Thursday.
“If US citizens continue to travel across borders, restrictions will increase, not decrease,” Landau added.
Health checks in the state of Sonora, Mexico, which borders Arizona, will include beaches and cities that are popular with visitors and buyers from Mexico and America, said Governor Claudia Pavlovich.
The states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas – all on the Texas border – have each registered thousands of confirmed corona virus cases, such as Baja, California, just south of San Diego.
On Tuesday, the COVID-19 case confirmed in a large refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, raised fears that asylum seekers seeking trial in the US could become infected while they waited.
