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Customers purchase homemade fabric face masks being sold for 20 pesos (around 85 cents) from Jorge Rodriquez, on a street in Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2020. Rodriguez said he was recently laid off from his construction job until further notice, and that he and his wife began making and selling the masks that people are using as a precaution to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Customers purchase homemade fabric face masks being sold for 20 pesos (around 85 cents) from Jorge Rodriquez, on a street in Mexico City, Monday, March 23, 2020. Rodriguez said he was recently laid off from his construction job until further notice, and that he and his wife began making and selling the masks that people are using as a precaution to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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.