Mexico City says all businesses can reopen Thursday including sports arenas, museums, bars

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City says all businesses can reopen Thursday, ending a virtual shutdown of the capital over swine flu concerns.

Mexico raises confirmed swine flu death toll from 15 to 16, total confirmed cases to 397

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has raised its confirmed swine flu death toll from 15 to 16 and says the total number of confirmed cases of the virus had risen to 397.

Amid resignation and protests, Mexico begins forced 5-day break to contain virus

MEXICO CITY — Mexico raised its confirmed swine flu death toll from 15 to 16 on Friday, adding that the total number of confirmed cases of the virus had risen to 397.

Mexico suspends nonessential services at government offices, private businesses amid epidemic

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government is temporarily suspending all nonessential activity of the federal government and private business as the number of confirmed swine flu cases jumped.

Mexico City mayor says swine flu outbreak stabilizing in capital with 1 more death

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City’s mayor says the swine flu outbreak seems to be stabilizing, with one more death since he spoke last. If the death toll keeps tapering off, he says he will consider easing the citywide shutdown.

Mexico faces criticism over speed, strength of swine flu response

MEXICO CITY — Two weeks after the first known swine flu death, Mexico still hasn’t given medicine to the families of the dead. It hasn’t determined where the outbreak began or how it spread. And while the government urges anyone who feels sick to go to hospitals, feverish people complain ambulance workers are scared to pick them up.

WHO ups pandemic alert after swine flu deaths hit 149, signs virus can jump from human to human

MEXICO CITY — Ominous developments Monday in the swine flu epidemic — a jump to 149 deaths and more signs that the virus can jump repeatedly from human to human — prompted the World Health Organization to raise its pandemic alert level, and governments around the world were taking tougher measures.

Ominous developments trigger pandemic alert; Mexico’s suspected swine flu death toll climbs

MEXICO CITY — Ominous developments Monday in the swine flu epidemic — a jump to 149 deaths and more signs that the virus can jump repeatedly from human to human — prompted the World Health Organization to raise its pandemic alert level, and governments around the world were taking tougher measures.

Mexico suspends schools nationwide as suspected swine flu death toll climbs to 149

MEXICO CITY — Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting results on the others.

Mexico suspends schools nationwide as suspected swine flu death toll climbs to 149

MEXICO CITY — Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained.

Mexico suspends schools nationwide as suspected swine flu death toll climbs to 149

MEXICO CITY — Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained.

Millions return to work in Mexico as suspected swine flu deaths top 100

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government tried Monday to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as the work week began by urging people to stay home if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to have killed more than 100 people.

No. of suspected swine flu cases rises to 1,614 in Mexico; 103 believed dead

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s federal health secretary says the number of suspected swine flu cases in Mexico has risen to 1,614, including 103 deaths.

Empty streets, churches, stadiums, bars: Mexico City locks itself in as swine flu spreads

MEXICO CITY — The cardinal said Mass in a shuttered cathedral. Soccer teams played to empty stadiums. A televised variety show filled its seats with cardboard cutouts. Mexico’s overcrowded capital locked itself indoors Sunday, terrified by a new strain of swine flu that was spreading around the world.

Mexico City Masses canceled, streets quiet as swine flu deaths climb

MEXICO CITY — Churches stood empty Sunday in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico City after services were canceled, and health workers screened airports and bus stations for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic.