Mexico on Friday reported 6,740 new coronavirus infections, taking the country's total to 245,251 cases, more than Italy and the ninth-highest tally worldwide, according to a Reuters count.
FILE PHOTO: Members of Mexico's National Guard keep watch during the reopening of the beaches and hotels after confinement measures were eased this week, as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues in Acapulco, Mexico July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Javier Verdin
Mexico’s health ministry also reported 654 more fatalities, bringing the total to 29,843 deaths, just a few behind France which currently has the fifth-highest death toll.More than two months after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Mexico had tamed the pandemic, the country has in recent weeks been posting some of the highest daily death tolls worldwide alongside Brazil and the United States.
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