MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - JULY 15: (EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death.) Crematorium workers enter the body of a person who died of COVID-19 into the oven to be cremated at the San Isidro Crematorium in Azcapotzalco on July 15, 2020 in Mexico City, Mexico. The crematorium is receiving 20 corpses a day, when before the pandemic received an average of five. Mexican Health Secretary announced the country has over 36,000 victims from COVID-19, surpassing Italy but behind US, Brazil and UK. According to Johns Hopkins University, Mexico has registered 311,486 positive cases. Critics say Government started reopening economy too soon and this would increase number of victims. At the beginning of the pandemic, President Lopez Obrador had been accused of downplaying the effects of the virus to protect economic activity. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)
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Mexico reports more than 550 new Covid-19 deaths

July 16, 2020
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Mexico’s health ministry recorded 6,149 newly confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus Wednesday, bringing the country’s total to 317,635.

The ministry also reported 579 new deaths from the virus, bringing Mexico’s death toll to 36,906.

Some context: On Wednesday, Latin American and Caribbean countries surpassed more than 3.5 million Covid-19 cases and more than 150,000 deaths, according to a CNN tally based on data from Johns Hopkins University.

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