Doctors head to Mexico City's Covid hotspots for testing as national cases top 310,000
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1562532
Doctors head to Mexico City's Covid hotspots for testing as national cases top 310,000
- Title: Doctors head to Mexico City's Covid hotspots for testing as national cases top 310,000
- Date: 15th July 2020
- Summary: VARIOUS OF PATIENT GETTING TESTED
- Embargoed: 29th July 2020 23:16
- Keywords: COVID-19 Mexico Mexico City barrios cases coronavirus neighbourhoods pandemic suburbs
- Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA003CMX9L53
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Health officials have set up mobile testing clinics in Mexico City's barrios that are under red alert for coronavirus infections, as Latin America's no.2 economy seeks to contain the spread of the pandemic.
At this tent in the Tlalhuac Municipality of Mexico City, residents can get a free test that will provide quick positive or negative results. The scheme has been rolled out in 32 suburbs in the capital that have slipped back into red alert.
Mexico's Health Ministry on Tuesday (July 14) reported 7,051 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 836 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 311,486 cases and 36,327 deaths.
The government has said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.
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