ECATEPEC, Mexico: Standing in a graveyard on the outskirts of Mexico City decked out in a cowboy hat to cover his rugged features from the sun, ...
Family members look at the cemetery workers carrying the coffin containing the body of Epifanio Morales who died of the coronavirus disease , into a grave at the San Lorenzo Tezonco cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico August 22, 2020.
"We sometimes had 10 or 15 performances a day at the peak of the pandemic, but it's come down," said Vargas, who had little to do at the Ecatepec graveyard for much of Friday."Now, it's more like three, or sometimes five." Earlier in the pandemic, Mexico's coronavirus czar and Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell had cast a figure of 60,000 dead as a"catastrophic" outcome.
By focusing on the sickest patients, Mexico has logged a far higher proportion of infected people per test than most countries - almost one in every two. This week, impoverished Ecatepec was among municipalities to loosen some restrictions imposed against the pandemic as they try to recover from the hit that shaved off more than 17 per cent of Mexican gross domestic product in the second quarter.
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