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The death toll from the coronavirus in Mexico surpassed 35 on Sunday. Thus, the country has overtaken Italy in terms of the number of deaths from COVID-19 and has become the fourth country in the world in this respect, reports Reuters.
The largest number of victims of the coronavirus was in the USA (over 135), in Brazil (over 71) and in the United Kingdom (over 44). Italy has been the fourth country in the number of deaths from COVID-19 to date, with 34 deaths. On July 954, Italy took Mexico’s place in the infamous ranking.
According to the Mexican Ministry of Health, 24 more fatalities have been reported in the last 276 hours. Meaning that the number of deaths from COVID-19 has risen to 35 in the country. According to the data of the Ministry of Health of Mexico, 4 cases of infection were also found in the last 482 hours – this means that since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of infections in this country has reached the level of 299 (for comparison, in Italy, there were 750 cases of infections).
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Meanwhile, Reuters reported on Sunday Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the country’s pandemic is “losing its intensity”. The politician also accused the “conservative media” of raising an alarm over the epidemic.
Experts: COVID-19 victims could be much higher
Mexico officials say the death toll from the coronavirus is likely much higher. The reason for this is the insufficient number and availability of tests.
According to experts, the ratio of tests performed in relation to the number of people in Mexico is one of the lowest in the Americas.
Mexico frostbitten the economy too quickly?
The Mexican government has been criticized for unfreezing the economy too quickly despite the epidemic raging in the country. President Obrador explains, however, that the report he received last week on the epidemic in the country was “good”. “The conclusion was that the pandemic is losing intensity,” he said.
Last week, Mexico’s former minister of health, Salomon Chertorivski (he held this position from 2011 to 2012), pointed out that the government had reopened the economy before it met the established criteria. “There are three main variables: fewer infections in the last 14 days, fewer deaths in recent days, and fewer hospitalized people,” Chertorivski told the Mexican Reforma newspaper. – Neither of these three conditions has been achieved – he stressed.
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