Mexico Coronavirus Peak Still Weeks Away, Pandemic Czar Says

New coronavirus cases in Mexico are expected to keep rising, a top health official said on Tuesday, even as the government pushes a gradual reopening of the economy launched at the beginning of this month. 'We still haven't reached the maximum point,' Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a morning news conference. 'For several more weeks, we will keep announcing there are more cases today than yesterday.' His assessment was largely echoed by officials from the World Health Organization and its Pan American Health Organization during a webcast news conference later in the day. While Mexico has yet to reach peak infections, they said, officials should boost testing before any wide-scale economic reopening and stick to safety measures, including social distancing.