Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 01 Aug 2020, 02:06 am Print
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Mexico City: Mexico has surpassed the United Kingdom to take the third spot in the list of Covid-19 deaths after reporting 688 fatalities on Friday.
The North American nation has so far reported 46,688 deaths from 424,637 cases. The United Kingdom is fourth with 46,204 deaths as on Friday.
The United States of America and Brazil is first and second in the list with 156,752 and 92,568 deaths respectively.
Mexican authorities believe the numbers could be higher than those reported.
As the numbers surge, critics of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said that he was slow to react to the pandemic and was late in imposing the lockdown but was too quick to lift it as some non-essential businesses were allowed to operate in July, in Mexico City, an epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in the nation.
Angry state governors have called for the resignation of Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell, an epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert, for his inability to deal with the pandemic.
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