Mexico has registered 736 more Covid-19 deaths and 7,257 more confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, AP reported.

Mexico now has more than 35,000 deaths from the pandemic, the fourth highest total in the world. It also has recorded over 324,000 cases, somewhere around the seventh-highest level.

The Health Department said that hospitals in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco are now at 85 per cent capacity and there is crowding in hospitals in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon.

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