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Coronavirus: Mexico leads Latin America in case fatality rate

05/26/2020
Coronavirus: Mexico leads LatAm in case fatality rate

Photo: Agencia Reforma (Archivo/Edgar Medel)

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• LEADING: Mexico is now the country in Latin America with the highest case fatality rate (10.7%) even ahead of Brazil (6.2%), the region’s country with the highest number of cases and deaths, according to estimates by Johns Hopkins University’s (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center.

 

• TESTING: “It is surely that (the number of cases in Mexico) is greater. And therefore, the lethality would be less”, said Miguel Betancourt, head of the Mexican Society of Public Health, a non-profit civil society organization. Mexico is lagging behind most countries in number of coronavirus tests.

 

• NUMBERS: As of late Monday, Mexico has officially reported 71,105 coronavirus cases and 7,633 total deaths. Meanwhile, Brazil has recorded 374,898 coronavirus cases and 23,473 deaths. Case fatality rate is the proportion of people who die among all individuals diagnosed with the disease.

 

• REJECTION: “To say that Mexico is the first place of lethality in Latin America is a falsehood”, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blaming Mexico City’s newspaper Reforma, which carried the story. The Reforma story is based on the ranking built by Johns Hopkins University.

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