MEXICO CITY – Mexico yesterday said its coronavirus death toll has risen above 100,000, becoming the world’s fourth country to pass the grim milestone.
“Today in Mexico, we have 100,000 people who have lost their lives due to Covid-19,” Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference.
The Health Ministry announced 576 more deaths in its daily update, taking the total to 100,104, behind only the US, Brazil and India.
The overall number of infections registered stands at 1,019,543 in the nation of more than 128 million.
While the number of daily infections has begun to rise again in recent weeks, authorities said deaths remain on a downtrend.
“There are infections, but fortunately... there are fewer deaths, and that’s the aim,” said President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador this week. – AFP, November 20, 2020
