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A child receives hand sanitizer while arriving at the Ignacio Zaragoza elementary school as Mexico City's authorities resumed in-person classes after a downward trend in the number of infections and hospitalizations of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City, Mexico, June 7, 2021. Luis Cortes/Reuters/File Photo
MEXICO CITY–Mexico City schools that had just gone back to in-person classes will be closed again starting Monday as the sprawling capital climbs into a higher tier of coronavirus risk, education authorities said on Saturday.
Mexico City officials had loosened restrictions on gatherings in schools, hotels, stores, and restaurants just two weeks ago as the dense urban zone moved into the lowest risk tier of the government’s four-level “traffic light” model.