Mexico City / 03/11/2020 21:16:57
Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Health, said this Wednesday that Mexico will value the possibility that flights from Europe land in the country, after Donald Trump’s announcement not to allow them to enter the United States in the face of the international emergency due to the new coronavirus.
The Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion explained that Mexico will value this option as long as the risk is evaluated.
López-Gatell reported that the United States measure began on February 3 with the cancellation of flights to China and it is only extending this prohibition, announced today, so that the health, tourism and foreign relations authorities will establish whether “Mexico is an alternative to travel on these trips.”
Mexico will stick to containment
On the other hand, the official indicated that the taking of samples will continue under the same model of cases with a history of travel to endemic countries And he said that what South Korea did, which is in the third phase, spread widely, it is not the most recommended, although it respects every decision.
López-Gatell called for calm to colleagues who have criticized the way of detecting and diagnosing, and announced that the World Health Organization chose Mexico as a country to apply the sentinel model in the phases of community dispersion.
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