According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, Mexico, the tenth most populous country in the world with just under 130 million inhabitants, has the ninth most worldwide with 789,780 confirmed coronavirus infections. The true numbers are likely to be significantly higher as there is very little testing in the North American country.
Final number probably in „a few years“
In addition, according to official information, more than 90,000 tests in Mexico could not be evaluated during the pandemic, for example due to errors in transport and storage. The final number of deaths will probably only be known in „a few years“, said the Mexican government’s top coronavirus expert, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, recently.
Now the Ministry of Health has expanded the definition of a confirmed case, as Lopez-Gatell said in his evening press conference yesterday. People who have had symptoms and contact with people who have tested positive, but have not been tested themselves, are now also counted as infected.
