Oaxaca, Oaxaca.- The President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that scientifically it has not been shown that the use of mouth covers helps prevent coronavirus infections.
“I do not want to enter into controversy on this issue, if it were considered that this would help then I would, but it is not a matter that is scientifically proven.”
In his press conference, at the facilities of the 28th Military Zone, the Chief Executive said that he follows the recommendations of the Health Secretary, Jorge Alcocer, and the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell.
“I have as a guide the recommendation of the scientists of the doctors. Since we had the teleconference with the G20, I argued that the politicians weren’t know-it-all todologists and the best thing was to give conduction to specialists.
The President explained that the focus of the entire campaign has been healthy distance and we have taken care of healthy distance.
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“Both Dr. Alcocer and Dr. Hugo López have told me that I do not need a face mask if I keep a healthy distance and in places where it is necessary because the norm, not to say mandatory, I put it there, on the plane They ask me, I put it on the plane, in the office I constantly tell citizens from social organizations, political, religious, what we do is keep a healthy distance.
Use of face masks
On May 25, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, reported that in the health security guidelines to enter the “new normal” stage in the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of face masks.
Until now, López-Gatell had only said that the mask can be used as preventive measure, but the provision had not been integrated as an official preventive action against the spread of the coronavirus.
“In the transition to the new normal, the face mask will be an auxiliary measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19. It joins the hygiene and healthy distance measures that will remain in society to prevent coronaviruses and other transmission infections, ”he wrote then on his Twitter account.
Mexico exceeds 370 thousand cases of Covid-19
Mexico reached 370 thousand 712 positive cases to Covid-19, 8 thousand 438 diagnoses more than last Wednesday, which means a new maximum number of infections, as well as 41 thousand 908 deaths, an increase of 718 with respect to the previous day, as reported yesterday by the Ministry of Health (Ssa).
José Luis Alomía, director of Epidemiology, indicated that, according to estimates, the number of confirmed cases at Sars-CoV-2 at this time would be 413,774 and 43,826 deaths.
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