Josş Luis Alomţa Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epidemiology, announced that Mexico had 1,00,104 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, behind the United States, Brazil and IndiaMexico passed the 1,00,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths, becoming the fourth country to do so amid concerns about the lingering physical and psychological scars on survivors. Josş Luis Alomţa Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epidemiology, announced late Thursday that Mexico had 1,00,104 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, behind the United States, Brazil and India. The milestone comes less than a week after Mexico topped 1 million registered coronavirus cases, though officials agree the number is probably much higher because of low levels of testing. Besides the trauma of the deaths, many coronavirus survivors say the psychosis caused by the pandemic is one of the most lasting effects. “And I said to myself, no, it is a psychological question.”"It is really like a cycle of terror,” she noted.

Source: The Hindu November 20, 2020 06:00 UTC