Mexico has become the fourth country to cross the 100,000 threshold for confirmed COVID-19 deaths, joining the U.S., Brazil and India.
Mexico’s director of epidemiology, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, made the announcement late Thursday. He said there have been 100,104 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Mexico since the first case was detected there in February.
The latest news comes just two days after the country of 126 million passed one million coronavirus infections, giving it the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world, at 9.8%, according to Johns Hopkins University. Mexico ranks sixth in per capita deaths, just above Italy and the U.S., and in September it reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths among health care workers.
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