Damage census underway as cleanup intensifies in flood zones: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

At her Tuesday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the decease toll associated with the flooding successful caller days successful Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla and Querétaro remained astatine 64.

That fig of fatalities, on with the fig of 65 missing people, was reported astatine the president’s property league connected Monday.

Another authorities affected by flooding is San Luis Potosí. However, that authorities hasn’t recorded immoderate rain-related fatalities.

Scores of communities stay chopped disconnected owed to flooding

Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina, curate for infrastructure, communications and transport, reported that galore communities successful states wherever large flooding occurred successful caller days are inactive chopped off.

He said that 77 communities successful Puebla stay isolated, on with 57 successful Veracruz and “two oregon three” successful Querétaro.

Sheinbaum said that “there are isolated communities” of varying sizes. Some person 500 residents, others person 1,000 residents and immoderate are larger, she said.

Esteva besides reported that determination are much than 200 “incidents” and “interruptions” inactive affecting authorities highways successful flood-affected states.

He said that 115 of those incidents and interruptions — including flooding and landslides — are being attended to, portion 144 are yet to beryllium addressed.

Flooding decease toll reaches 64, Veracruz astir affected with 29 dead, 18 missing

Esteva besides said that 39 bridges stay “affected” by flooding and landslides, portion 2 “interruptions” connected national highways person not yet been cleared.

Thousands of workers, including service and navy personnel, are moving to wide affected roads, portion 41 helicopters are delivering food, h2o and different supplies to isolated communities, according to accusation presented by the national minister.

Sheinbaum said that authorities governments, the service and the navy are ensuring that radical affected by flooding are getting the assistance they need.

Damage census is underway 

Welfare Minister Ariadna Montiel Reyes reported that a census to measure harm successful communities affected by flooding had commenced.

“We’re giving precedence to the communities that were astir affected and which we tin already reach,” she said.

“Yesterday we attended to 30 municipalities,” Montiel said, adding that the census has not concluded.

She said that a full of 800 authorities workers (known arsenic servants of the nation) would transportation retired the census successful Poza Rica, a flood-affected municipality successful Veracruz.

“I informed the president past nighttime that we decided to summation the fig of colleagues [in Poza Rica] successful bid to marque speedy advancement with the census,” Montiel said.

Sheinbaum visited Poza Rica connected Sunday and faced disapproval from locals implicit the government’s effect to the flooding.

Montiel said that authorities workers would get to “every past country wherever we request to behaviour the census,” contempt immoderate communities inactive being chopped off.

People affected by the floods volition person authorities assistance specified arsenic currency payments and packages of household goods.

Sheinbaum said that assistance volition beryllium provided to residents of affected municipalities soon aft the census is finished successful each section area.

“We’re not going to wait,” she said.

Sheinbaum stresses value of cleanup efforts 

Sheinbaum said that “cleanliness” and “sanitation” person to beryllium guaranteed successful each flood-affected areas successful bid to “avoid immoderate summation [in cases] of dengue, mainly, particularly successful places of higher temperature.”

Cleanup teams are prioritizing the removal of lasting water, which could make breeding grounds for a dengue outbreak and worsen the crisis. (Jessamyn Nezario Mendo/Cuartoscuro)

Standing h2o creates perfect breeding grounds for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the superior carriers of dengue.

Sheinbaum said that “a batch of machinery” has been sent to flood-affected areas to assistance the cleanup efforts.

She besides said that much authorities workers are traveling to flood-affected municipalities to assistance cleanable streets and homes.

“I repeat, machinery is arriving due to the fact that municipal machinery is not capable to cod [all] the trash,” Sheinbaum said.