Mexico’s deputy health minister said that the government has ordered 1.1 million additional death certificates be printed as several parts of the country ran out and coronavirus cases continue to surge.
Speaking in a press conference, Hugo Lopez Gatell, the health official, said that some states, including Mexico state, ran out of death certificates.
Moreover, he added that authorities have been working for the past two to three weeks to redistribute them from areas with larger stocks.
It is worth mentioning that, Mexico has registered over 66,000 coronavirus-related fatalities, putting it fourth in terms of Covid-19 deaths behind the U.S., Brazil and India.
Earlier, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that the government’s strategy to tackle the coronavirus was “very good.”
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