MANILA, Philippines — After being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Miss Universe pageant made a comeback and crowned its third winner from Mexico, 26-year-old Andrea Meza, in a three-hour spectacle beamed around the world from Hollywood, Florida, in the United States on Sunday (Monday morning in Manila).
During the pageant’s round of questioning, Meza was asked how she would have handled the pandemic in her country.
“What I would have done is to create a lockdown even before everything was that big, because we lost so many lives and we cannot afford that. We have to take care of our people,” she said with the help of an interpreter.
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