Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico Notified of Two Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Individuals
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc, Copyright 2020
The City of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico received notification from the State of Coahuila Health Department that two individuals from the city had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus on April 1, 2020.
One of the individuals is an employee of a local hospital in Piedras Negras while the second individual is an employee of the mega Constellation Brands beer brewery in nearby Nava, Coahuila.
These two confirmed positive tests are the first to be reported in the City of Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Piedras Negras, Coahuila is located on the United States-Mexico border on the Rio Grande River adjacent to the City of Eagle Pass, Texas.
The City of Eagle Pass, Texas itself has four confirmed positive COVID-19 persons as of April 1, 2020. The City of Eagle Pass has enacted a Stay at Home Emergency Order on March 31, 2020 while Piedras Negras has also been placed under a Stay at Home Public Health Emergency Order as part of a national shelter in place order approved by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on April 1, 2020.The State of Coahuila Health Department reported that there are now 59 confirmed positive COVID-19 persons as of April 1, 2020, including a total of 37 with two deaths in the City of Monclova, Coahuila, 12 in the Capitol City of Saltillo, Coahuila, 8 in the City of Torreón, Coahuila, and two in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
Piedras Negras, Coahuila Mayor Claudio Bres Garza encouraged all residents of Piedras Negras and surrounding region to stay at home and practice social distancing to suppress the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the community.
The United States and Mexico have entered into a temporary bi-national agreement to close the southern border to non-essential travel and limiting travel only to essential travel in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus between the two countries. The United States Department of Homeland Security through its Customs and Border Protection have been very strict in enforcing who is allowed to travel into the United States at the two international bridges in the Eagle Pass Port of Entry, but essential travelers are still allowed into the United States.
