Mexico City decked out in a cowboy hat to cover his rugged features from the sun, guitar player Eberardo Vargas this week had fewer funerals to play at than he has for most of the coronavirus pandemic.Even as Mexico approaches a grim new milestone in its battle with the pandemic — 60,000 fatalities — signs of relief are beginning to emerge in the country that has registered more dead than any other bar the United States and Brazil.Vargas, 49, said May, June and July were the busiest months he could recall as a musician as mourners in the municipality of Ecatepec northeast of Mexico City paid him and his band to hear favourite songs of lost loved-ones during their last goodbyes.