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Mexicans worry that even getting COVID won t make their leader take virus seriously

The Globe and Mail Maria Abi-Habib and Oscar Lopez MEXICO CITY Bookmark A day after the news that Mexico’s president had contracted COVID-19, frustration rippled through the line of Mexicans anxiously waiting Monday to refill tanks of oxygen for relatives who were suffering from the same illness and gasping for air at home. For nearly a year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had minimized the pandemic, claiming that religious amulets protected him, refusing to wear masks and even drinking from the same clay pot as supporters. It was only a matter of time until he got sick himself, some Mexicans said.

Mexicans worry that even getting COVID won t make their leader take it seriously

For nearly a year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had minimized the pandemic, claiming that religious amulets protected him, refusing to wear masks, and even drinking from the same clay pot as supporters. It was only a matter of time until he got sick himself, some Mexicans said.

Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador tests positive for COVID-19

Interior minister Olga Sanchez Cordero will temporarily serve as his deputy while he recovers, López Obrador said. The Mexican president, who suffered a heart attack in 2013, has refused to wear a mask in public and told reporters last month that everyone is free. He also said, If using a mask makes a person feel safer, then go ahead. López Obrador has said he would wait until late February to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Those who have criticized the Mexican leader s handling of the pandemic expressed little surprise at his diagnosis. One even expected or assumed, because of his way of exposing himself to so many people and not wearing a mask, that he would have been infected earlier, Carlos Magis Rodríguez, professor of medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told The New York Times.

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