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Customers pick out homemade fabric face masks being sold for 20 pesos (around 85 cents) from Jorge Rodriquez, 48, on the street in central Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2020. Rodriguez was recently laid off from his construction job until further notice, and so he and his wife began making and selling the masks. "You have a family. You have to bring home money," said Rodriguez. "I'm a little afraid, but you have to find a solution for the household costs." Beginning Monday, Mexico's capital shut down museums, bars, gyms, churches, and other non-essential businesses that gather large numbers of people, in an attempt to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Customers pick out homemade fabric face masks being sold for 20 pesos (around 85 cents) from Jorge Rodriquez, 48, on the street in central Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2020. Rodriguez was recently laid off from his construction job until further notice, and so he and his wife began making and selling the masks. "You have a family. You have to bring home money," said Rodriguez. "I'm a little afraid, but you have to find a solution for the household costs.&quo…

March 23, 2020

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Mexico's busy streetscape slows, but doesn't stop for virus
March 23, 2020 10:55 p.m.

Mexico's busy streetscape slows, but doesn't stop for virus

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Increasingly empty beaches and quieter streets in Mexico contrast with a still-crowded subway system and active street vendors, as shut-downs and social distancing measures have begun but remain very uneven.