This is a figure that goes beyond the “most catastrophic” scenario envisaged by health authorities in Mexico. More than 60,000 people have succumbed to Covid-19 in the country. Mexico is the third most bereaved country in the world behind the United States and Brazil.
Some 644 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours, for a total of 60,254 deaths, according to data from the Ministry of Health on Saturday. On June 4, the Under-Secretary for Health, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, had however said that "a very catastrophic scenario could reach 60,000" deaths.
Authorities despite everything optimistic
However, the authorities have recently been optimistic. Tuesday, Hugo Lopez-Gatell assured that the epidemic had entered "into a phase of decline" by announcing a decrease in the figures on cases of infection and deaths linked to the coronavirus. But specialists express doubts in view of the few tests carried out in the country. “As far as deaths are concerned, these are proven deaths. And there can be unproven deaths in hospital and at home, it can skew the data, ”said Malaquias Lopez, an expert from the National Autonomous University and former director of the Ministry of Health.
According to an estimate from the University of Oxford, among a group of 15 Latin American countries, Mexico is the one that performs the fewest tests: 7.96 per 100,000 inhabitants. The first case of coronavirus was detected there on February 28. The government declared lockdown on March 23, but without sanction for breaches and essential economic activities were not affected by lockdown. An easing was then introduced for certain economic sectors.
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