Mexico leads the world in coronavirus deaths among its health care workers, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday.
It said Mexico has reported 1,320 …
Mexico leads the world in coronavirus deaths among its health care workers, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday. It said Mexico has reported 1,320 confirmed deaths from COVIID-19 so far, surpassing the United States at 1,077, the United Kingdom at 649, and Brazil at 634. The report is likely to revive debate about Mexico’s extremely low coronavirus testing rate, with fewer than one in 100 Mexicans tested. While Mexican officials have bragged that all health care workers have gotten one test, that appears insufficient for people who face daily exposure over months. Health professionals in Mexico have also held many protests over a lack of adequate personal protective equipment. Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s head of economic and social justice at Amnesty International, called the worldwide death toll of over 7,000 health workers “a crisis on a staggering scale.” „Every health worker has the right to be safe at work, and it is a scandal that so many are paying the ultimate price,” he said. Cockburn urged an international cooperative effort to ensure that every health care worker has adequate protective equipment. According to figures released last week,97,632 nurses, doctors and other hospital employees in Mexico have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began — about 17% of all the country’s cases at that point.
