Scale of pandemic in Mexico ‘under-recognised’, says WHO

The scale of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico is “under-represented” and “under-recognised” and testing is limited, the World Health Organization’s Dr Mike Ryan said on Friday.

He told a Geneva briefing that testing in Mexico worked out at about three people per 100,000, compared with about 150 tests per 100,000 people in the United States.

This August 21, the 83rd day of the New Normal, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, reported 59,610 total deaths in Mexico from COVID-19, and that there are . . .