MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has registered 351,376 excess deaths associated with COVID-19 from the start of the pandemic through May 23, health ministry data showed on Wednesday.
By that date, the country had recorded 221,647 deaths from the coronavirus. Mexico’s official COVID-19 death toll has since risen to 232,803.
(Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez, Writing by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)