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Mexican authorities say the trend of injuries and deaths in the country is no longer increasing, but rather a superficial situation, expecting deaths to decrease significantly in the coming days.
At a press conference a few days ago, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told people: “What the world knows about Mexico is that we are controlling the epidemic, and we are doing it mainly, because the Mexican people are making conscious efforts” .
But many officials familiar with the authorities’ handling of the crisis, who requested anonymity, rejected the president’s statements, saying they were incorrect, and confirmed that official figures reduce the actual number of deaths by approximately 5 times.
Leading epidemiologists warned the Mexican government of the pandemic last January, but were told that “there is nothing the government can do.”
The failure to publish the correct death toll appears to be part of a government strategy to contain the panic of the epidemic, particularly in the poorest neighborhoods of Mexico City, where more than 30 million people live.
The Sky News camera went through dozens of hospitals, crematoriums and funeral homes in Mexico City, and monitored the accumulation of bodies in these places, because the refrigerators no longer accommodated.
And in a public crematorium in the city, some bodies wait their turn for 3 days before burning them, and workers demand that new cemeteries be created, after the crematoria do not absorb any more bodies.
In a hospital, workers were forced to use an autopsy store as a warehouse, which was stacked in plastic bags on dissection tables and on the floor of the site.
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According to officials from the Mexican Ministry of Health, the number of people who die from the Corona virus pandemic in the country is 5 times higher than official government figures, according to an investigation by “Sky News”.
To date, according to official figures, Mexico has registered 4,220 deaths due to the Corunna virus, while the infected figures indicate 40,186 people.
An investigative team at Mexico City’s Sky News, Mexico City, documented cremations and funerals, and was able to access the corpse-strewn warehouses, all of which indicate that government data on the death toll is incorrect.
In most of Mexico City, the second largest city in Latin America, the policy of social divergence is hardly applied, since popular markets and some companies operate normally, despite the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
Mexican authorities say the trend of injuries and deaths in the country is no longer increasing, but rather a superficial situation, expecting deaths to decrease significantly in the coming days.
At a press conference a few days ago, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told people: “What the world knows about Mexico is that we are controlling the epidemic, and we are doing it mainly, because the Mexican people are making conscious efforts” .
But many officials familiar with the authorities’ handling of the crisis, who requested anonymity, rejected the president’s statements, saying they were incorrect, and confirmed that official figures reduce the actual number of deaths by approximately 5 times.
Leading epidemiologists warned the Mexican government of the pandemic last January, but were told that “there is nothing the government can do.”
The failure to publish the correct death toll appears to be part of a government strategy to contain the panic of the epidemic, particularly in the poorest neighborhoods of Mexico City, where more than 30 million people live.
The Sky News camera went through dozens of hospitals, crematoriums and funeral homes in Mexico City, and monitored the accumulation of bodies in these places, because the refrigerators no longer accommodated.
And in a public crematorium in the city, some bodies wait their turn for 3 days before burning them, and workers demand that new cemeteries be created, after the crematoria do not absorb any more bodies.
In a hospital, workers were forced to use an autopsy store as a warehouse, which was stacked in plastic bags on dissection tables and on the floor of the site.
