Mexico City officials give guidance as lockdown eases

In the Tlalpan district on Mexico City's south side, green-vested city officials fanned out door to door for an information campaign Monday that's part of the capital's reopening.

The local government workers passed out fliers and urged people to take precautions.

Some businesses were opening for the first time in months, while others had already opened against government rules out of financial necessity.

Marco Antonio Morales, 46, who runs a small auto parts shop, was among the latter.

He closed his shop for the first month of the epidemic, but reopened when his family ran out of money.

Morales explained he's tried to take precautions, including stopping installations of certain car parts, and only lets one customer at a time into the shop.

He has been surprised by the number of people in the streets in recent days and blames poor messaging by political leaders from the mayor to the president.

"I think it's the mistaken message of the government," Morales said. "A president who doesn't set a healthy example, who thinks he's Superman."

Cesar Mendoza, the city official who leads the canvassing brigade in Tlalpan, said they plan to visit 221,000 homes and urge people to continue to be careful.

"People are scared, they're worried by the coronavirus situation, basically the deaths that there have been," Mendoza said, "they worry they'll catch it and that a close family member could die."

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