Mexico’s death toll world’s third Highest

Mexico on Thursday surpassed India in confirmed COVID-19 deaths, giving the country the third-highest toll worldwide, according to a reuters tally of official data.

Mexico’s health ministry reported 18,670 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 1,506 additional fatalities, bringing total cases to 1,825,519 and deaths to 155,145. The latest total death toll in India, with more than 10 times the population of Mexico’s 126 million, stood at 153,847, reuters found.

Adjusted for deaths per capita, Mexico’s toll is lower than the u.k., the Czech republic, Italy, the u.s., Peru and Spain, according to Johns Hopkins university.

In Mexico City, hospitals are nearing capacity and a shortage of oxygen tanks has complicated the treatment of patients.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said Sunday he had tested positive for the coronavirus, was improving and continuing to work, officials said.