Mexico’s health ministry on Wednesday reported 1,609 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and 197 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 27,634 cases and 2,704 deaths.
The government has said the real number of infected people is significantly higher than the confirmed cases. To date, Mexico has only tested 93,441 people for COVID-19. Earlier, Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, told reporters that testing and knowing the number of infections in the country isn't important to fighting the pandemic.
Among the confirmed positives, Mexico . . .
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