MEXICO CITY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th March, 2020) The Mexican authorities have registered 25 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, the overall number of those infected totaled 118, head of Mexico's epidemiological service Jose Luis Alomia said.
"Currently, 118 cases of COVID-19 infection have been confirmed, we are studying 314 suspected cases of illness and 787 tests were negative," Alomia said at a press conference broadcast on the country's Health Ministry's Twitter.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a pandemic. More than 200,000 people in about 160 countries are infected worldwide, over 8,000 have died.
