Mexico City: The number of people, who have died of COVID-19 in Mexico, has risen by 522 to 66,851 within the past 24 hours, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said.
He also said on late Friday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had increased by 6,196 to 623,090 within the same period.
A day earlier, the Latin American nation recorded 5,937 new cases of the coronavirus, with 513 fatalities.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11.
To date, more than 26.5 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 872,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Source: ANI