Mexico Sees Marked Rise in Daily Coronavirus Cases

Mexico’s health ministry announced, on Sunday, that the total number of Coronavirus deaths reached 70604.

The ministry added, in a statement, that 5638 new Coronavirus cases were recorded during the past 24 hours, raising the total number of cases to 663973. It noted that 421 new deaths were also reported.

It is worth mentioning that, Mexico’s deputy health minister announced last week 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.

Earlier, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that the government’s strategy to tackle the coronavirus was “very good.”