Coronavirus in Mexico: April 21, 2021 Update

The number of total deaths from COVID-19 climbed to 213,048, after registering 582 new deaths yesterday in Mexico. The Ministry of Health also reported that there is a total of 2,311,172 infections since the beginning of the pandemic after 4,262 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.

During the evening press conference to report on the progress of the pandemic in the country, the director-general of Epidemiology, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, announced that the country presented a 6% increase in positive cases nationwide over the past week.