Mexico marks grim coronavirus milestone, passes 100,000 deaths


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  • Friday, 20 Nov 2020

FILE PHOTO: Ambulance attendants transport a patient with suspected symptoms of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection to an ambulance to be transferred to another hospital, as the outbreak continues, in Mexico City, Mexico, November 13, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico, the most populous country in the Spanish-speaking world, has registered 100,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths within days of passing the grim milestone of one million infections, official data showed on Thursday.

Mexico's official death toll from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, is among the highest worldwide, and in the Americas lags only behind the United States and Brazil.

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