But that closed border, along with every other closed point of entry is also what may be buying Belize some time. Manzanero discussed the Belize’s national strategy of sovereign isolation:..
Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"Understand that we really have isolated ourselves, the Guatemalan border closed down for more than a week, the border with Mexico closed, tomorrow is a week and airport closed on Monday. Understand that if there's anything then really brewing from either a Belizean that came back or was in contact with somewhere else. So that's the reason why the next 7 to 10 days in this first phase is going to be critical in terms of being able to identify any other case if that were to be the case."