Mexico estimates up to 8,000 deaths from coronavirus

Health authorities in Mexico estimate that the COVID-19 pandemic will cause between 6,000 to 8,000 deaths, according to the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell.

In an interview, the head of the fight against the pandemic in Mexico explained that in most countries, between 50 and 80 percent of intensive care patients with COVID-19 have died.

Following this pattern, and calculating that in Mexico, 10,000 people will end up in intensive care, "we would be talking about 6,000 people, 7,000 or 8,000 people . . .