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Latin America hits 70,000 pandemic deaths, daily record in Mexico

Published 2020-06-10, 09:14 p/m

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin America's coronavirus crisis reached a grim new milestone on Wednesday with total deaths exceeding 70,000, according to a Reuters count, as Mexico hit a daily record for confirmed infections.

Brazil, with the largest economy in the region, remains Latin America's most affected country as total fatalities are just shy of 40,000, the world's third highest death toll after the United States and Britain.

In the region's second biggest country Mexico, a new daily record of 4,883 confirmed cases was reported by the health ministry, along with 708 additional fatalities.

The daily totals bring Mexico's overall official count to 129,184 infections and 15,357 deaths.

The World Health Organization has determined that Latin America is the new hotspot for the pandemic, which began around the beginning of the year in China and quickly spread to Europe and beyond.

Governments across the globe acknowledge that the real number of infected people is significantly higher than the official counts.

Latin American fatalities attributed to the highly-contagious Covid-19 respiratory illness caused by the virus stand at 70,972, while total infections are at 1.45 million.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mexico City

The outbreak has also spread rapidly in Peru, Chile and Columbia.

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