New number was more than twice as high as previous record
Pedestrians, one wearing a face mask, walk along an almost empty Paseo de la Reforma street in Mexico City, on June 2, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The country reported 1,092 deaths from COVID-19 on June 3, 2020.The coronavirus toll in Mexico soared to a new daily high Wednesday, with the health department reporting 1,092 test-confirmed deaths – more than double the previous one-day record and in line with numbers in the United States and Brazil.
Officials rushed to say that many of the new confirmed deaths had occurred days or even weeks ago and were being announced now because of delays in processing tests or other reasons.But such delays have presumably been a constant reflected in every previous daily tally. Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell did not cite any specific clearing of testing backlogs in previous days that would explain the Wednesday spike.
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