MEXICO CITY, May 8 (UPI) -- Life is beginning to return to normal in Mexico City although businesses still face tough anti-swine flu regulations, residents say.
Among new legal new measures meant to stop the spread of the H1N1 virus are demands that office workers sit 6 feet apart, and that movie theaters allow spare seats on either side of each customer, The Daily Telegraph in Britain reported Friday.
"It's all a bit surreal," Claudia Bernal, 39, told the newspaper as she was being served breakfast by a waiter in a blue surgical mask. "We are used to crowded places and hustle and bustle. This is a like a different city."
The health regulations meant restaurants could only seat 50 percent of their capacity and their staffs, including waitresses and cashiers, had to wear masks, observers reported.
"I'm just opening so I can keep paying my staff," Mercurio Cruz, the manager of an Argentine-style steak house, told the Telegraph. "But I won't make any money. The government has to relax these rules soon."
