translated from Spanish: Alcocer and Lopez-Gatell have told me I don’t need a head covering: AMLO

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this Friday that he will only wear a mouth cover in places where it is necessary or is obligatory, because keeping the healthy distance as suggested by the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer and undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, is enough.
“I have been told by both Dr. Alcocer and Dr. Hugo López-Gatell that I don’t need the mouth cover if I keep the healthy distance and in the places where it is necessary or a norm, not to mention obligatory, because that’s where I put it on the plane, I put it on the plane, in the office where I constantly receive citizens from leaders of all social organizations,” he said on Friday at his morning conference from Oaxaca.
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He said the case of the pandemic was best for the lead to be given “to the specialists they know” and that if he considered that by using the cover at all public events he would “but it is not a scientifically proven matter.”
WHO notes that the use of mouth cover is part of a comprehensive set of prevention and control measures that can limit the spread of respiratory diseases such as COVID-19, as long as they are combined with frequent hand-cleaning and healthy distance.
Federal Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell, tasked with guiding Mexico’s strategy to COVID-19, mentioned at the onset of the epidemic that the bottle cover should only be used by health professionals and caregivers of patients with respiratory infection, as well as pointing out that there was no conclusive scientific evidence on its effectiveness.
However, he ultimately said that, for the general population, it would be an “auxiliary measure to prevent the spread” of the coronavirus, if used correctly.
The representative again assured that mexico’s pandemic is losing strength “slowly” so people must start dating, regain their freedom and overcome fear 
“We have to find the balance between health, which is fundamental, with the economic situation, open with care, that is, complying with protocols but not staying immobilized all the time, if it opens up and there is a problem of regrow a backup backwards.”
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López Obrador reproached politicians who have imposed coercive measures to reduce mobility and prevent the spread of contagion.
“The authoritarianism of politicians, the mandatory confinement, curfews, have come to light. What we have done here is everything has been voluntary (…) and people have been very well first class because the people of Mexico are among the most civic-conscious peoples in the world,” he said.
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Original source in Spanish