More deaths are expected to be recorded in the coming days as the country reopens its economic activities. Graveyard diggers in the country are now preparing for death surge, according to a recently published article. 

Updates of Mexico's COVID-19 Cases and Death Toll

The negative economic and health impact brought by COVID-19 is undeniable. More infections and death cases are recorded around the globe. The race to end the global pandemic is still far from reality.

As of today, there are more than 6.1 million COVID-19 cases and with more than 370,000 deaths. Out of these numbers, Mexico has recorded more than 87,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths according to worldometers. 

This makes Mexico the third country in North America with the highest cases of infections while the fourth country in Latin America. They are below Brazil, Peru, and Chile according to the data obtained and recorded by Statista.

Graveyard Diggers are Now Preparing for More Deaths

As Mexico plans to reopen its economy, the country's graveyard diggers are also preparing for more deaths in the coming days. The country's pre-mature reopening of its economy due to some political pressures will lead to a surge of infections and death cases. 

In a recently published article, Enrique Ruvacalba, whose four generations of families have worked as graveyard diggers in Guadalajara, said that they were advised to prepare for a more intense phase that is coming. 

He also shared that there were changes on how families bury the dead. Before the country was hit by the global pandemic, families bury their relatives openly to the public, honor them with flowers, and of course the traditional mariachis playing mournful songs. But today, he said: "Only the box came, not a single relative, just the coffin."

In Guadalajara alone, they added 700 tombs as part of their preparation in the wave of COVID-19 deaths. Mexico's increasing number of deaths every day is yet to become the highest in the world. Meanwhile, the country is battling the true number of cases and death toll while it will reopen its economic activity this week. 

Obrador's Claim About the Virus and Views of Experts    

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed on Thursday as he announced the resumption of economic activity in the country that Mexico is doing well and that the pandemic is already under control.

However, the country's leading infectious diseases specialist Alejandro Macias said that he understood the need of the country to somehow put the economy back to its more than 129 million people but he also asserted that the plan also needs to put people's lives first. 

Macias is also concern about the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country. He said: "The risk is that there will be another substantial rise in the number of cases and that this could cause some hospitals to collapse - and if the hospitals collapse this could put the security and governance of some regions at risk." 

Meanwhile, Mexico has recorded its first COVID-19 case in late February and since then the number of infections and death cases continue to increase. Some said that the numbers reported are not the true numbers, they suggested that the real figure is higher.

Macias also said: "Right now we have less than 10,000 recognized deaths. But it's very probable the true figure is substantially bigger - probably double that." Behind these numbers, one thing is real and that is thousands of families in Mexico grieve for the sudden death of their family members due to COVID-19. 

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