Residents of the town of Sonoyta, across from Lukeville, Arizona, briefly blocked the main road leading south from the U.S. border over fears of coronavirus outbreaks.
MEXICO CITY -- Residents of the town of Sonoyta, across from Lukeville, Arizona, briefly blocked the main road leading south from the U.S. border over the weekend over fears of coronavirus outbreaks.
The mayor of Sonoyta, Jose Ramos Arzate, issued a statement Saturday "inviting U.S. tourists not to visit Mexico."Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Ramos Arzate wrote that people from the United States should only be allowed in "for essential activities, and for that reason, the checkpoint and inspection point a few meters from the Sonoyta-Lukeville AZ crossing will continue operating."
Mexico and the United States agreed previously to limit border crossings to essential activities, but up until this week, that had mainly been enforced for people entering the United States, not the other way.
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