Everyday many countries are recoding more cases of Corona. Mexico raised its “estimated” Covid-19 deaths to 89,612 on Monday, and expanded estimates of its total number of cases to 870,699, almost 137,000 more than it previously recognized. Even with the new estimated death toll, Mexico is still in fourth place worldwide behind India, which has 95,542 deaths. But in case of infections, the new surveys would heighten Mexico from eighth place in total cases to fifth place, behind Russia with about 1.15 million cases.

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Mexico has about 76,600 test-confirmed deaths and 733,717 test-confirmed cases. But officials accept those are significant undercounts because the country does so little testing that only about 1.6 million tests have been done so far. In a country of almost 130 million, that means that only about one in 80 Mexicans has ever had a test. About 40% of all tests are positive because only people with notable symptoms are tested. Mexico had previously issued “estimated” figures based on tests still awaiting results, which sometimes takes weeks.

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But the new estimates released Monday by the Health Department are higher because they were calculated by adding two new groups: those who never were tested but had symptoms, and those who had tests that could not be investigated because the samples were not handled properly. The new figures also carry a proportion of pending completion. Officials announced Sunday that almost 96,000 test swabs equal to about 5% of all tests in Mexico had to be thrown out because they never reached a lab, arrived too late, or were not preserved in the right conditions to be tested.

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