Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón
, head of Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (SRE) , informed that as of March 20 , 1,153 Mexicans have been repatriated from different nations due to the coronavirus contingency.
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In a news conference at the National Palace, he added that most repatriated Mexicans have come from Peru (710), followed by Guatemala (140), and Chile (100).
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Marcelo Ebrard said that the government is doing the corresponding arrangements so as to repatriate other Mexicans but there are countries “that have not given us the authorization to send a flight, but even if we had the chance, there are countries that are not authorizing flights , so we are reporting this to all embassies to help our co-nationals , of course.”
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The minister added: “It’s an unprecedented situation for there have never been so many canceled flights ; it didn’t happen during the [H1N1] crisis.”
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