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Record Deaths Suggest Major Covid-19 Undercount

Sanitization in Mexico City

By KYLIE MADRY An almost 40 percent increase in deaths from a typical year suggests that Mexico’s official covid-19 count is much lower than the actual death toll. Mexico published its “excess death” statistics late Sunday, Oct. 25, with 193,170 more deaths through September than in an average year. Officially, 88,924 people in Mexico have died of covid-19, about half

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Mexico Asks World Bank, IMF to Help Middle-Income Countries

XINHUA Mexico called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank on Thursday, Oct. 15, to establish a support strategy for middle-income countries, saying they have no financial wiggle room to tackle the economic fallout caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Countries such as Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Bulgaria cannot afford to take the kind of emergency financial measures

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