The Mexican office of the health secretary on Wednesday announced that over 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths were recorded in a 24-hour period for the first time.
The daily death toll of 1,092 was more than double the 470 fatalities reported the day before. Health Secretary Hugh Lopez-Gatell explained that some of the deaths recorded on Wednesday occurred more than two weeks earlier.
The total classes recorded in the country is 101,238.
Meanwhile, Brazil also reported a record 1,349 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period on Wednesday, the figure brought the total death toll from the pandemic in Brazil to 32,548, with 584,016 confirmed infections — the second-highest caseload worldwide, after the United States.
Brazil’s death toll, which has doubled in 17 days, is currently the fourth-highest worldwide, after the US, Britain, and Italy.
Brazil has been hardest hit so far in the southeast — the business and industrial corridor that includes Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro — the impoverished northeast, and the north, including the Amazon region with its vulnerable indigenous population. Although, impact has been felt less in the south of the country so far.
