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Agence France-Presse

Mexico said its coronavirus death toll had risen above 100,000, becoming the world’s fourth country to pass the grim milestone.
“Today in Mexico we have 100,000 people who have lost their lives due to Covid-19,” deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference on Thursday.
The health ministry announced 576 more deaths in its daily update, taking the total to 100,104, behind only the United States, Brazil and India.
The overall number of infections registered now stands at 1,019,543 in the nation of more than 128 million, up 4,472 from the previous day.
While the number of daily infections has begun to rise again in recent weeks, the authorities say that deaths remain on a downtrend.
“There are infections, but fortunately … there are fewer deaths and that’s the aim,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said this week.
But Malaquias Lopez, an epidemiologist and former health ministry official, said it was unclear if the situation was improving.


“We’re at a point where we don’t see a clear phase of descent. We don’t know where it’s going,” he said.
The government says poor diets and health problems including obesity, hypertension and diabetes are partly to blame for the high death toll.
“These conditions increase the possibility of a patient dying, it’s true, but in Mexico they’re almost a death sentence,” said Lopez, who thinks the authorities have used the risk factors to deflect criticism of their handling of the pandemic.
Half of Mexico’s workforce is in the informal sector and if they become sick they cannot afford to self-isolate, he said.
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The government says the high number of deaths reflects its large population.
When it comes to deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Mexico is in 11th place worldwide, based on official data.
The authorities acknowledge that the real number of coronavirus deaths is higher than the official toll due to the low level of testing.
The grim toll was reported after virus deaths in the world’s worst affected country, the United States, passed a quarter of a million on Wednesday.


Overall, the virus has killed at least 1.3 million people and infected almost 57 million since the virus was first detected in China last December, according to a tally from the US-based Johns Hopkins University.
The second worst-affected country is Brazil with 168,000 deaths, followed by India with 132,000.
US states and cities are imposing a raft of new restrictions, including home confinement, the closure of indoor dining and a limit on gatherings as cases soar.
Earlier Thursday in Russia, health officials reported more than 23,600 new infections and 463 virus-related deaths in 24 hours, both record highs since the start of the country’s outbreak.
Japan was also on “maximum alert” after logging a record 2,000 daily infections with nearly 500 in the capital Tokyo alone, though no immediate restrictions were planned.
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New infections in Germany have plateaued since a partial lockdown came into force in early November, officials said, even though the daily number of new coronavirus cases remains too high.
France, too, has seen declines in daily new Covid-19 cases since a second nationwide lockdown began at the end of October.
President Emmanuel Macron and top ministers will discuss easing some restrictions from December 1, though officials warned the country was still far from the end of its lockdown.
The virus and restrictions imposed to halt its spread continue to disrupt businesses, sports and entertainment worldwide.
Face-to-face meetings between the chief negotiators in Brexit talks were suspended on Thursday after a member of the EU team tested positive for coronavirus.
Additional reporting by DPA


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True tally of cases in Mexico likely much higher, as number of tests carried out is relatively low