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Mexico’s COVID-19 death toll becomes the world’s third-highest

Posted: Saturday, August 1, 2020. 2:31 pm CST.

By Aaron Humes: The BBC says that Belize’s northern neighbor, Mexico, has become the country with the third-highest death toll from COVID-19, trailing only the United States and Brazil.

It has now suffered at least 46,688 deaths during the pandemic, from a total of 424,637 infections.

The U.S. has recorded at least 153,415 deaths and Brazil 92,475.

Previously the United Kingdom had the third-highest death toll with 46,204 deaths as of Friday.

In Mexico, local authorities have previously said they believe the real number of infections is likely to be significantly higher than those reported.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is eager to restart the country’s flagging economy. His government announced a phased plan to lift restrictions in May.

In Mexico City, the capital, hundreds of thousands of factory workers returned to their jobs in mid-June. Some non-essential businesses were then allowed to reopen at the start of July in the city, the epicenter of the country’s epidemic.

But critics say Mr. Obrador was slow to impose lockdown measures and has lifted them too quickly. Most of the Mexican economy stopped on 23 March but some industries that were declared key to the functioning of the nation and were exempt from the restrictions.

On Friday ten state governors chastised the government’s handling of the outbreak and called for the resignation of Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell – an epidemiologist and Mexico’s coronavirus tsar.

More than 17.5 million coronavirus cases have been reported worldwide, along with nearly 679,000 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the effects of the pandemic will be felt “for decades to come”.

 

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