MEXICO CITY (HRNW) – Mexico’s death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 30,366, propelling it past France to become the country with the fifth-highest number of fatalities in the global pandemic, according to the health ministry.
“As of today, 30,366 people who had tested positive for COVID-19 in the laboratory have died,” Jose Luis Alomia, national director of the Department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, told a press conference.
The US remains the hardest-hit country in the world, followed by Brazil, Britain and Italy.
The Latin American country, with 127 million inhabitants, had surpassed Spain in the number of deaths last Wednesday.
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