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New Coronavirus Variant Reaches Mexico


Mon 11 Jan 2021 | 10:34 AM
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A senior official with the Mexican Ministry of Health announced on Monday that the first case of the new variant of coronavirus has been detected in a 56-year-old British citizen who arrived in Mexico City on December 28 from Amsterdam.

José Luis Alomía , general director of Epidemiology, said that the case arrived in Mexico City on December 28 coming from Amsterdam, indicating that he headed to the northeastern city of Matamoros.

Mexico has so far recorded 1534039 cases of emerging coronavirus, including 133,706 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health data.