This May 29, Jalisco confirmed 159 new cases of COVID-19, the highest single-day increase since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the coordinator of Social Development, Anna Bárbara Casillas.
Of these, only 97 were added to the federal government's registry of confirmed cases because the federal government will only accept COVID-19 tests from the public health system, private hospital and laboratory tests are not counted on the national level, allowing Mexico to report low numbers of infections.
The State of Jalisco reports 2,320 cases of COVID-19, however . . .
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