MEXICO CITY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th August, 2020) The number of people, who have died of COVID-19 in Mexico, has risen by 794 to 51,311 within the past 24 hours, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said.
He also said on late Friday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had increased by 6,717 to 469,407 within the same period of time.
A day earlier, the Latin American nation recorded 6,590 new cases of the coronavirus, with 819 fatalities.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 19.2 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 718,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
