Probe says Mexico City deaths three times higher than official toll

An anti-corruption watchdog group says a registry of death certificates in Mexico City shows there were more than 4,500 cases where doctors mentioned coronavirus or COVID-19, more than three times the official death toll in the capital.



Mexico performs relatively few tests. Federal officials have pledged that those who died without tests, but where death certificates mention coronavirus as a possible or probable cause, would be included in official death tolls. The report released suggests underreporting has been much more pervasive, writes Mark Stevenson in Mexico City. 


As some countries that were hit hard early on are seeing declines in infections and deaths, some populous nations are seeing rises. Russia and Brazil sit behind only the U.S. in the number of reported cases. And cases are spiking elsewhere from Mexico, as noted above, to Bangladesh. India's cases have surged past 100,000.