The Government of Mexico He has lost the “royal battle” against the COVID-19 pandemic, said Juan Ignacio Zavala, a columnist for El Financiero, on Thursday.
The also political consultant remarked that Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary of Health, has been shown in the federal Government as a “symbol” of the fight against the new coronavirus, but the scientific part has been lost.
“We started with a technician, with a scientist, with a doctor who introduced us to the Mexicans to trust him and suddenly he became a character in the magazines of the heart, suddenly he was a leading man, a rocker. Then he started a oppositional facet and now he is as a radical deputy. So we have lost the scientist, we have lost the doctor and that means that we have lost the real battle against the pandemic, “he said in the EF MEET POINT. Mexico, what’s next? Between the pandemic and the elections.
Zavala also pointed out that the federal administration has failed in its pedagogical facet towards the population on the use of the mask.
“The governed, when there is an epidemic, a flood, a tragedy approach the authorities because they tell us what we have to do and in this sense this federal government has left something to be desired,” he added.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico has caused the death of 41 thousand 190 people and accumulates 231,403 confirmed cases, according to the latest update from the Secretary of Health published on Wednesday.
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