Mexico’s Andrea Meza crowned Miss Universe
   Date :18-May-2021

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FLORIDA :
 
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ANDREA Meza of Mexico has been crowned Miss Universe for the year 2020, besting contestants from 73 other countries, including Miss India Adline Castelino, who came in fourth at the beauty pageant. The 69th edition of the event, which was held on Sunday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood here, was a scaled-down affair in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
 
The competition was postponed from late 2020 to May 2021 due to COVID-19. According to the official Miss Universe website, the 26-year-old Meza was crowned by her predecessor Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa, who won the pageant in 2019. When asked if she were the leader of her country, how she would have handled the pandemic, the Mexican contestant said there was “not a perfect way to handle this hard situation”. “However, I believe that what I would have done is create a lockdown even before everything was that big. Because we lost so many lives and we can not afford that, we have to take care of our people. I would have taken care of them since the beginning,” Meza said in her response.