An anti-corruption watchdog group says a registry of death certificates in Mexico City shows there were 4,577 cases where doctors mentioned coronavirus or COVID-19, more than three times the official death toll in the capital.
A barrel organ player wearing a face shield as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, hopes for donations in Mexico City, Saturday, May 16, 2020.
The anti-corruption group Mexicans Against Corruption said in a report Monday that it got access to a database of death certificates issued in Mexico City between March 18 and May 12. It showed that in explanatory notes attached to 4,577 death certificates, doctors included the words “SARS,” “COV2,” “COV,” “Covid 19,” or “new coronavirus.”
The group did not say how it accessed the database, which was kept by local courts. But it noted that official counts showed only 1,060 coronavirus deaths during that March 18-May 12 period.
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