Mexico eclipses Britain with third highest coronavirus death toll

FILE PHOTO: Hugo, a patient who recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is pictured as he leaves from the Juarez Hospital to go to his house in Mexico City Mexico, July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico surpassed Britain as the country with the third-highest coronavirus death toll on Friday, as the pandemic reaches new milestones in Latin America and threatens to disrupt efforts to reopen the region's reeling economies.

The record places Mexico behind Brazil, Latin America's largest and most populous nation, and the United States. More than 91,000 people have died in Brazil, and the U.S. death toll has topped 152,000.