Rocío Nahle’s mother dies of Covid-19

María Helena García Herrera, mother of Rocío Nahle García, head of the Ministry of Energy (Sener), died this Wednesday due to complications derived from Covid-19.

“Engineer Rocío Nahle García is going through a difficult process with her family and at the first opportunity will make a statement,” said the energy agency in a statement.

On February 26, his son, Arturo Nahle García, president of the Superior Court of Justice of the State of Zacatecas, revealed that his 80-year-old relative was hospitalized and suffered from diabetes and hypertension.

In August 2020, the person in charge of energy policy was infected with covid-19 and faced an asymptomatic picture.

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Mexico has suffered more than 187,000 deaths and 2.29 million infections of the respiratory disease, of which, 1.64 million have recovered.

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The Mexican government is vaccinating medical personnel and older adults in its bid to reduce deaths, amid multiple international delays by pharmaceutical companies, and while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador refuses to use face masks as a preventive measure.

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