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López-Gatell calls for respect for the medical staff
Hours before the report of the Secretariat of Health, undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, spread in social networks a video in which he appears next to the secretary of the bouquet, Jorge Alcocer, to ask for respect for the medical staff.
The message is given after physicians and nurses have reported physical attacks and acts of discrimination against them, on the part of people who believe that health workers can them from getting sick from coronavirus-COVID-19.
The and health professionals face violent attacks and discrimination of the society by fear #COVID19. Are the one who can save us life and indispensable at this time; respect them, take care of them. pic.twitter.com/USUXyvNADr
— Hugo Lopez-Gatell Ramirez (@HLGatell)
April 19, 2020
At the global level, until this Sunday, nearly 2.4 million cases of COVID-19, as well as 164,000 deaths.
The country with the most positive cases is the united States, with more than 755,000, followed by Spain and Italy, with 196,000 and 178,000, respectively.
