Mexico City mayor cancels all public events for 10 days to try to contain swine flu outbreak

Mexico City cancels all public events for 10 days

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City is suspending all public events for 10 days as officials try to contain an outbreak of a deadly new swine flu.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says the city has enough medicine to treat those infected, but the city’s focus is on containing the spread of the strain.

City Health Secretary Armando Ahued says 10 new possible cases of infection have been discovered.

Officials say some 1,004 people have been infected nationwide. Tests show 20 people have died of the swine flu, and 48 other deaths were probably due to the same strain.

The H1N1 virus is a mix of human, pig and bird viruses that has epidemiologists around the world deeply concerned.

The World Health Organization says the outbreak has “pandemic potential.”