Mexico, the third most affected country on the American continent, behind the United States and Brazil. With 30,336 deaths recorded by the Mexican Ministry of Health on Saturday July 4, the country became the 5th country in the world most bereaved by Covid-19, ahead of France.

At a press conference, the national director of the epidemiology department of the Ministry of Health José Luis Alomia, reported 252,165 confirmed cases of contamination with the new coronavirus, that is 6,914 people more than on Friday. A record since the outbreak of the epidemic in this country.

Mexico, with 127 million inhabitants, had already exceeded Spain in number of deaths last Wednesday and was then the sixth most affected country.

Deconfinement in Mexico City despite the peak of the epidemic

Since the first case of the new coronavirus was reported in Mexico in late February, health officials in that country have adjusted their death estimates, which initially stood at 8,500.

Hugo Lopez Gatell, Deputy Minister of Health, again warned that the toll could be heavier. "We knew from the start that the number of cases identified would not be representative of the total number of people infected with COVID-19 in Mexico," he said at a press conference.

Mexico City, the capital, is the city most affected by the disease. This did not prevent the municipal authorities from beginning a partial economic reopening in early July.

Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum warned on Friday that some central stores had failed to meet strict reopening conditions and ordered their closings until Monday. The shopping centers, which were to reopen Monday, will have to wait until Wednesday, according to the town hall.

With AFP

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