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The head of the World Health Organization said “Mexico is in bad shape” with the pandemic and urged its leaders to take the coronavirus seriously and set examples for its citizens.
Comments from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came on Monday as the death toll in Mexico stood at 105,940 – the fourth highest in the world – with 1,113,543 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. The country’s actual numbers are believed to be much higher in part due to low levels of testing.
“The growing number of cases and deaths in Mexico is very worrying,” he said at a press briefing.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, center, pictured in early March during a press conference on COVID-19, at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone FILE via AP)
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Mexican President Andrés López Obrador has been criticized for often not wearing a mask and, without mentioning names or specific cases, the WHO chief has urged the country’s leaders to take the pandemic seriously.
“We would like to ask Mexico to be very serious,” he said. “We have said in general, wearing a mask is important, hygiene is important and physical distance is important and we expect leaders to be examples …”
Mexican government pandemic pointer Hugo López-Gatell said all comments were valuable, but noted the government had previously warned that with the onset of winter the situation would worsen. According to its latest data, the pandemic increased by 7% last week.
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