Mexico Covid death toll passes India to become third worst in world

Mexico’s coronavirus outbreak became third-most deadly in the world as its death toll surpassed India, months after the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, refrained from imposing Covid-19 measures.

As of Friday, Mexico recorded 155,145 coronavirus deaths as against 154,010 deaths in India, a country with 10 times more people that has successfully managed to contain its burgeoning caseload in past few months.

Since the beginning of pandemic, Mexico has seen 1.8 million confirmed coronavirus infections and witnessed a record spike in cases since December. The country had a seventh-highest single-day spike in new infections over the past week.

Hospitals are nearly at breaking point, nearing capacity, with people queuing up for to refill oxygen tanks amid shortage reported at healthcare facilities.