supermarkets' supply chain in the state of mexico, tabasco, guerrero, morelos, and veracruz if safety measure are not enforced and if they are not provided with safety on highways. landáburu said he believes food trucks are robbed by the organized crime who then redistribute the food for free in an attempt to demonstrate a false sense of solidarity among the population. may 2020 may 1–17 on may 1, mexico surpassed 20,000 infections of covid-19. mexicanos contra la corrupción (mexicans against corruption) alleged that léon manuel bartlett, son of manuel bartlett the head of the comisión federal de electricidad (cfe), fraudulently tried to sell overpriced ventilators to the mexican institute of social security (imss) in hidalgo. on may 2, mexico surpassed 2,000 deaths due to the covid-19 pandemic. at least forty mexican and guatemalan farm workers in canada contracted coronavirus, that according to the united food and commercial workers. on may 3, imss published videos of the progress made on the construction of a field hospital in autódromo hermanos rodríguez racetrack in mexico city. the hospital is expected to go into operation on may 13. the same day, undersecretary lópez-gatell estimated that there were 104,562 cases of covid-19 in mexico, 80,000 more than the ones confirmed. the former presidential mansion los pinos opened as a shelter for imss health providers in mexico city on may 4. the instituto de verificación administrativa (invea) announced it had closed eight non-essential businesses on may 4 and 5 that were in violation of the lockdown orders in mexico city. this was in addition to the 58 that had been suspended between march 26 and april 30. according to estimates by undersecretary lópez-gatell, at least 250,000 people may eventually be infected and the death toll may reach 8,000. a group from médecins sans frontières arrived in tijuana, baja california, on may 6. baja california is third only to mexico city and the state of mexico in the number of covid-19 infections reported. the regent seven seas splendor from los angeles has been allowed to dock in puerta vallarta for thirty days for "humanitarian reasons". the ship does not currently carry any passengers and is scheduled to sail for la paz, baja california sur, on june 6. a nursing home in nuevo león was closed on may 7 after an outbreak was reported on may 4. an article published on the new york times on may 8 assured that both the federal government and the state government of mexico city ignored the wave of coronavirus deaths in the capital city. the article criticized the way that president andrés manuel lópez obrador has been handling the pandemic citing the lack of testing done and the fact that the government has been hiding the real number of covid-19 cases and deaths. it was also mentioned that despite the fact that undersecretary hugo lópez-gatell has been saying that "we have flattened the curve" and that only 5% of those infected will show symptoms, and only 5% of those patients with symptoms will go to the hospital, experts say that "their model is wrong" and that "there's a very good consensus on that". more than 100 health workers (doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc.) are among the 3,573 dead from the virus on may 12. also that a 40-year-old man who works in the president's office has died. on may 13, mexico registered more than 2,000 new cases in 24 hours for the first time. the four entities with the most confirmed cases at the time were mexico city, the state of mexico, tabasco, and veracruz. the country had a total of 42,595 confirmed cases and 4,447 confirmed deaths. president lópez obrador presented a four-phased plan beginning may 18 for a gradual, orderly economic reopening of the country. between may 9 and may 15, 13,000 new cases were confirmed. the totals were 42,595 cases, 10,057 active cases, and 4,477 deaths on may 15. may 18–31 it was reported on may 18 that in the outskirts of mexico city more than 3.5 tons of infectious waste were piling up and being illegally dumped. on may 19, mexicans against corruption (mexicanos contra la corrupción in spanish) said that the authorities of mexico city were hiding the real number of covid-19 deaths. the organization claimed that the actual number of deaths in the city was 4,577, as opposed to the 1,332 confirmed at the time by the authorities. the same day, fourteen health workers were kidnapped and released from a hotel in tacubaya, mexico city. on may 20, the government of the state of mexico said that they were going to use refrigerated trucks and trailers to store the corpses coming from 16 hospitals for periods of 48 to 72 hours in order to avoid the overcrowding of morgues and to support families that want to cremate the bodies. the same day, the government of mexico city appointed a comisión científico técnica para el análisis de la mortalidad (″scientific technical commission for mortality analysis″) headed by arturo galindo fragua of the instituto nacional de ciencias médicas y nutrición ("national institute of medical sciences and nutrition″) to investigate whether the official number of covid-19 deaths is lower than the actual number. doctor christopher edward ormsby, of the instituto nacional de enfermedades respiratorias ("national institute of respiratory diseases,″ iner) is also working on the commission. the same day, claudia sheinbaum presented her "gradual plan towards the new normality in mexico city", and said that mexico city will be at a red light until at least june 15. on may 22, the number of new cases and deaths reported in 24 hours reached a record high of 2,973 and 420 respectively. general motors partially reopened two of its four plants—a motor plant in ramos arizpe, colima, and a motor and transmission plant in silao, guanajuato. it was reported on may 23 that mexico's 10.8% mortality rate from covid-19 is the eighth highest in the world, most likely due to a lack of testing. globally the mortality rate was about 6.7% at the time. the instituto de salud para el bienestar (insabi) announced on may 25 it paid mxn $60,435,000 for 300,000 covid-19 tests in june and july. an individual test costs $204. on may 26, the numbers reached another record high, with 3,455 new cases and 501 new deaths in twenty-four hours. on may 27, a 55-year-old nurse who heads the intensive care unit at the issste hospital in mérida, yucatán, denounced death threats and the burning of her house and car. cars line up for miles at the tijuana-san diego county, california border crossing, despite restrictions on non-essential travel. baja california reports a 33% shortfall of hospital beds on may 28. fake news about toxic substances being spread by drones leads to disturbances in venustiano carranza, chiapas, including the burning of city hall. thirty states and cdmx are classified as ′'rojo'′ (red: maximum risk); the only exception is the state of zacatecas, which is orange: high risk, after 81,400 confirmed cases and 9,044 deaths are reported on may 28. june 2020 june 1–15 day 1 of the "new normality was on june 1. president lópez obrador motors to cancún and inaugurated the construction of the mayan train. on the same day, the first foreign tourists, since imposition of the quarantine, arrived in los cabos, baja california sur. rules about safe-distancing, use of a facemask, and against overcrowded public transportation were largely ignored in nuevo león. on june 2, the number of new cases of infection increased by 4.2% (3,891) compared to the day before. women made up 57% of the 97,326 confirmed cases in the country at the time. for the first time, on june 3, imss-morelos uses plasma donated by recovered patients as an alternative, experimental treatment for individuals infected with the sars-cov-2 virus. the 817 new deaths reported in one day on june 4 is more than the combined daily figures from the united states (174), brazil (33), russia (144), and the united kingdom (357). mexico's 4,422 new cases are fewer than russia's 8,726 and india's 7,450 new cases, but more than the united states' 4,091 new cases. the mexico city prosecutor's office began an investigation on june 5 into the alleged alteration and falsification of 500 death certificates by ten doctors, as well as the robbery of five of them. missing or falsified death certificates brought into question the veracity of statistics, making predictions more difficult. the national human rights commission reported that prisons are especially vulnerable to spread of the virus and notes there have been 395 confirmed cases, 232 suspected cases, 53 deaths, and three riots or fights in prison related to covid-19. of those, 99 of the cases were confirmed in jalisco and 55 in mexico city. the newspaper excélsior published a report stating that between april 12 and june 4 the number of covid-19 infections among children increased from 84 to 2,248. save the children noted that 46 girls, boys, and teenagers have died, emphasizing the large numbers of minors who must work to help provide for their families. meeting in tequila, jalisco on june 7, the block of eight governors (coahuila, colima, durango, guanajuato, jalisco, michoacán, nuevo león, and tamaulipas) denounce the federal government's traffic light system of reopening the economy and demand more autonomy for states. it was reported that zoé alejandro robledo, the director of the mexican social security institute (imss) and three other top bureaucrats of the institution were infected with coronavirus. the traffic light map for june 8–14 showed the entire country in red and hugo lópez-gatell emphatically denied on june 8 that the country could now return to normality. the states of tamaulipas, oaxaca, and quintana roo were stable but still "stably high." guerrero, yucatán, and querétaro had lower contagion rates than 14 days earlier, but lópez-gatell warned of a possible rebound. the institute for health metrics and evaluation of the university of washington in seattle projects between 37,397 and 75,516 deaths due to the coronavirus in mexico by august 4. on june 9 governor héctor astudillo flores of guerrero reported he had contracted covid-19 but that he planned to continue working from home. a health clinic and city hall are burned by armed inhabitants of las rosas, chiapas after the death of a peasant on june 10, apparently from covid-19. the first international tourists returned to quintana roo on june 11. a mexicali health clinic supported by former baja california gubernatorial candidate enrique acosta fregoso (pri) was closed on june 15 after selling a supposed covid-19 "cure" for between mxn $10,000 and $50,000. june 16–30 a set of triplets were born prematurely with covid-19 at the ignacio morones prieto central hospital in san luis potosí on june 17. both parents tested negative and the children were reported stable. 51.2% of all infections (94,958 cases) occurred in the so-called "new normal" from may 18 to june 23 as the period after the country's general quarantine was lifted and states began to resume their economic and social activities in stages. deaths also grew by 56% (12,654 cases) in these 22 days of "new normal". jarbas barbosa, deputy director of the pan american health organization (paho), reported on june 24 that in mexico there is an evident increase in covid-19 infections, a situation similar to that of brazil, chile, and peru. she recommended that the authorities allocate at least 6% of gdp to the health sector and direct 30% of said investment to the first level of medical care. arturo herrera, secretary of finance and public credit (shcp) contracted covid-19 on june 25. puerto vallarta, jalisco, set a daily record for covid-19 deaths with six new deaths in the city. there have been 723 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the city, with 33 new cases added on june 25, also a new daily record for the city. this is two weeks after the economy and beaches reopening and seven days after people flocked to the beaches for the father's day weekend in puerto vallarta where little social distancing or mask usage was observed. july 2020 july 1–15 on july 1, mexico became the seventh country with the most covid-19 deaths surpassing spain. the same day, mexico reported 231,770 confirmed cases of covid-19, with this mexico became the tenth country with the most infected people with