Mexico reported 193,170 "excess deaths" through Sept 26

26/10/2020 11:41

        Mexican health authorities acknowledged Sunday that the country's true death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is far higher than thought, saying there were 193,170 "excess" deaths in the year up to Sept. 26, with 139,153 of those judged to be attributable to COVID-19.
        
        That is about 50,000 more deaths than Mexico's official, test-confirmed death toll of about 89,000, and about 56% higher than the previous estimate of 103,882 pandemic deaths.
        
        Mexico has an extremely low testing rate, and officials had previously acknowledged that many people didn't get tested or their tests were mishandled. Authorities had earlier presented the estimated COVID-19 death toll of 103,882 after taking into account mishandled tests and some other factors.
        
        But the Health Department said experts had now analyzed databases of death certificates up to late September — the latest date for which complete data was available — to come up with the latest figure of 139,153. The analysis picked up symptoms related to COVID-19 mentioned on death certificates even if they weren't listed as the cause of death.