The number of coronavirus deaths in Mexico has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to the country with the third highest number of deaths by viruses, further underlining Latin America’s prestige as a viral hotspot, as many countries show no indication that the end of the pandemic is somewhere. Vision.
On Friday, Mexico reported 688 new deaths for a total of 46688, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker, enough to move the country beyond the uk’s total death toll of 46204 on Friday.
Mexico now has fewer coronavirus deaths reported than the United States and Brazil, although its total number of cases still ranks sixth, countries such as India, Russia and South Africa.
Despite the recent accumulation in the number of reported cases and deaths, experts continue to underestimate the figures.
Overcoming the death toll in the UK has renewed tension over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has been criticized for downplaying the pandemic and has garnered comparisons with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and US President Donald Trump, who lead the two worst. affected countries.
On Friday, he commented to reporters that he would only wear a mask when corruption in Mexico is no longer a challenge: “then I’ll put on a mask and avoid talking,” he said.
Like his counterparts Bolsonaro and Trump, López Obrador refused to wear a mask in public, resisted social estrangement measures and criticized Mexico’s escalating media policy. “The mask has been politicized here in the same way as in the United States and the United Kingdom, among other countries,” Mexico City sociologist Rodolfo Soriano-Nuez told the Guardian. The resolve to wear a mask in public is noted through some in Mexico as a way to make a political statement, a phenomenon similar to that observed in the United States and Brazil and which country presidents have been criticized for encouraging as a way to appeal to their base. Much of Latin America is grappling with the burden of the pandemic, while cases and deaths are on the rise, and experts say the region’s economic inequality and disparity in physical care make many other people living there vulnerable to disease. On Friday, Colombia surpassed 10,000 deaths in total, and the country likely achieved 300,000 cases shown until the end of the week, Reuters reported. According to a report by the Andalusian Agency, Latin America accounts for 30% of coronavirus deaths shown worldwide, while only 8% of the world’s population.
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