• POSITIVE: The head of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoe Robledo, has tested positive for coronavirus becoming the fourth high-level official in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s cabinet contracting the disease since it first was reported in the country in late February.
• RESPONSE: Created in 1943, IMSS is the largest public healthcare agency in Mexico covering salaried workers in the formal private-sector and their families. According to the most recent figures, IMSS had 1,810 hospitals and other medical facilities catering to 58 million beneficiaries.
• REMOTELY: “I will continue working remotely, coordinating the tasks I am in charge of and following carefully the instructions of the extraordinary IMSS doctors”, said Robledo on Sunday via Twitter. As recently as Friday, Robledo joined President López Obrador in a public event in Tabasco.
• OFFICIALS: Other high-level officials in Mexico’s federal government that have tested positive for coronavirus include the head of the Public Administration Ministry, the head the Mexican consumer protection agency an undersecretary of the Interior. Mexico has 117,103 confirmed coronavirus cases.
