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Mexico says 1,200 citizens died in US from coronavirus

News Desk (Agence France-Presse)
Mexico City, Mexico
Wed, June 10, 2020 Published on Jun. 10, 2020 Published on 2020-06-10T02:56:53+07:00

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Mexico says 1,200 citizens died in US from coronavirus In this file photo taken on Feb. 21, 2017, the border fence on the US/Mexico border ends abruptly near the town limit of Del Rio, More 1,200 Mexicans have died of the novel coronavirus in the United States, Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, adding that another 12 citizens around the world have also fallen victim to the deadly virus. (AFP/Jim Watson)

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ore 1,200 Mexicans have died of the novel coronavirus in the United States, Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, adding that another 12 citizens around the world have also fallen victim to the deadly virus.

Ebrard said more than half of the US deaths were in New York, while five of the worldwide deaths happened in Canada.

As borders all over the world were closed due to the pandemic, Mexico repatriated more than 14,600 people, including almost 4,000 from Europe, Ebrard said.

Remittances sent home from Mexicans living abroad is an important source of income for many people.

Those coming from the US dropped 2.6 percent in April compared to the same month in 2019, having reached a record of more than $4 billion in March 2020.

Some 12 million people born in Mexico live in the US, as well as another 26 million second or third generation Mexicans.

Mexico, a country of 127 million, had recorded more than 120,000 coronavirus cases by Monday and over 14,000 deaths, making it one of the worst hit countries in Latin America.

 

 

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