MEXICO CITY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 29th August, 2020) The number of people, who have died of COVID-19 in Mexico, has risen by 552 to 63,146 within the past 24 hours, Jose Luis Alomia, the director of epidemiology at the Health Ministry, said.�
He also said on late Friday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had increased by 5,824 to 585,738 within the same period of time.
A day earlier, the Latin American nation recorded 6,026 new cases of the coronavirus, with 518 fatalities.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 24.6 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 835,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
