Mexico City, May 17 (RHC)-- In Mexico, dozens of frontline nurses in Mexico City and the city of Texcoco held protests demanding the government provide them with proper personal protective equipment. 

One organizer said: “We haven’t been given personal protective equipment, masks, or N95 masks, less still goggles.  We are purchasing all of our equipment.  It’s quite expensive, and they don’t last for more than a week.  And we can’t have those expenses, and we can’t continue to risk ourselves by using the bad-quality equipment we are being given here.”

Mexico now has over 40,000 known cases and an official death toll of over 4,200. Despite a surge in cases, officials are preparing to slowly reopen Mexico’s economy beginning May 18th.