Mexico's Coronavirus Tally Reaches 726431

Mexico’s health ministry announced, on Sunday, that the total number of Coronavirus deaths reached 76243.

The ministry added, in a statement, that 5573 new COVID-19 cases were recorded during the past 24 hours, raising the total number of cases to 726431. It noted that 399 new deaths were also reported.

It is worth mentioning that, earlier, Mexico’s deputy health minister announced that the government has ordered 1.1 million additional death certificates to 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, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that the government’s strategy to tackle the coronavirus was “very good.”