Mexico to house Covid-19 doctors in former presidential residence
Mexico’s former presidential residence will be used to house doctors and nurses dealing with Covid-19, the government announced on Monday.
“We are ready to receive up to 80 people, with the possibility of increasing the number to 100,” Social Security Institute director Zoe Robledo said at President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s daily press conference.
An initial group of 58 doctors and nurses was due to move to Los Pinos residence on Monday.
Robledo said doctors had requested accommodation because they lived far from the hospitals where they worked, because they wanted to protect their families from Covid-19 infections and because they were concerned about their security.
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Los Pinos, which includes offices and gardens, was home to Mexican presidents from 1934 until 2018, when Lopez Obrador took office.
The leftist president decided not to live in Los Pinos, which had housed predecessors he considered corrupt. He is living and working at the National Palace, the seat of the federal executive (dpa)
