COVID-19: Mexico City’s subway installs thermal cameras to spot users with fever

Mexico City’s Mayoress Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

announced a program to check the temperature of the users of Mexico City’s subway , best known as Metro , through thermal cameras that are installed in the Zócalo and Pantitlán stations as a measure to face the COVID-19 pandemic.

She said that if the cameras identify a person with over 37.5 C , they will be asked to go back home.

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“They will kindly be asked to return home, for it can be risky although it’s not guaranteed for it to be COVID-19 . People can have the symptoms and it’s better for them to go home. It’s not mandatory, but it is suggested for them to leave,” she said.

The Metro informed that this is a pilot program from its direction of Engineering and Technological Development that consists of two infrared cameras : one located in Zócalo station and the other in Pantitlán station.

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They stressed that, so far, they have not detected users with fever but should they find one, personnel from the Metro’s Industrial Security and Hygiene will address them, give them a mask , sanitizing gel , and gloves , and will tell them to contact the Intelligence Unit for Health Emergency (UIES) via telephone (555168242) or by text message (51515) for the corresponding monitoring of the case.

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