SOE Lifted In San Felipe/Blue Creek

And border jumping is certainly what forced government to declare a state of emergency with curfew and lockdown in the Orange Walk villages of San Felipe and Blue Creek on July 10th. It was supposed to last for a month - but, today, two weeks later the Prime Minister today announced that the State of Emergency is being lifted, and life can return to normal in those villages, effective immediately.

It's a huge relief for those communities which had been stranded without many essential services, and it comes after contact tracing exercises related to 7 cases coming out of that area. An exhaustive contact tracing exercise which ended this week confirmed that there were no cases related to those 7.