López-Gatell was on Aeroméxico flight 392, which goes from CDMX to Huatulco, Oaxaca, during the afternoon of this Thursday.
Mexico City, December 31 (SinEmbargo / EFE) .- The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, would have addressed a Flight from Mexico City to Huatulco without wearing a mask.
In a photograph shared by Salvador García Soto, a journalist from The universal, it is shown how the official talks on the phone while driving to his seat and without using the mask.
López-Gatell was on Aeroméxico flight 392, which goes from CDMX to Huatulco, Oaxaca, during the afternoon of this Thursday.
Today in the morning in Aeromexico Flight 392 from lq CDMX to Huatulco, the undersecretary @HLGatell boarding without the mask on pic.twitter.com/bkUfhjyfwY
– Salvador García Soto (@SGarciaSoto) December 31, 2020
The information disseminated by García Soto was replicated by other media such as the agency Quadratin.
The same Health authorities have recommended the use of face masks on flights or any public place and without physical distancing.
Until this Thursday, Mexico adds one million 413 thousand 935 infections and 124 thousand 897 deaths, which remains the fourth country in the world with the most deaths from the pandemic and the thirteenth nation with the most infections worldwide.
Vaccination against the coronavirus began on December 24 and in a first phase is only intended for health personnel in the front line of care, although it is expected that by March 2022 the majority of the population in the country will be inoculated .
-With information from EFE