Latin America has emerged in recent weeks as a major centre for coronavirus. FMTNews Covid19
Brazil, where the virus has hit hardest in the region, also reported a record number of deaths on Wednesday.
However, plans to further relax social distancing measures this week were put on hold in recognition of the fact that infections had not yet begun coming down. The total number of known cases in Latin America’s second-largest economy is now 101,238 and its tally of deaths is 11,729, making it the seventh country with most deaths from the virus, according to the John Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
“Over the past 20 or 25 days, we have had various cases that were slowly passed on to the registry, for various reasons,” he said.The committee was established after growing criticism that Mexico’s very limited testing rate meant most cases and deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, were not being registered. A Reuters investigation concluded that fatalities could be 2.5 times higher than reported.
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