Mexico reports another single-day record for coronavirus deaths

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Mexico registered a record for coronavirus deaths on a single day, posting 479 more deaths along with 2,960 new infections, according to data from its health ministry.

According to Reuters, authorities have now reported 62,527 total cases of the novel coronavirus and 6,989 deaths since detecting the first cases in Mexico in late February.

An employee of the municipality of Iztapalapa gives sanitising gel to a woman arriving to the San Nicolas Tolentino cemetery, amid Covid-19 outbreak in Mexico City, Mexico, May 9. — Reuters
An employee of the municipality of Iztapalapa gives sanitising gel to a woman arriving to the San Nicolas Tolentino cemetery, amid Covid-19 outbreak in Mexico City, Mexico, May 9. — Reuters

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