Mexico's COVID-19 deaths average 55 years vs. 75 in Europe

Mexico’s coronavirus spokesman said Thursday country’s median of death from COVID-19 was a shockingly young 55, as compared to an aver of 75 in many European countries.

Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said that neless, Mexico's future coronavirus vaccination program would target oldest Mexicans first.

López-Gatell said country’s high rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension explained Mexico's lower aver of death. He said Mexico has among highest rate of obesity in world

López-Gatell said Mexico’s approval for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could come Friday. But he said all acquisitions of vaccines would be at federal level, and that individual state governments could t purchase ir own.

That came after one opposition-party state goverr said some fellow goverrs were weighing acquiring vaccines on ir own.

Mexico has seen a total of 1,217,126 test-confirmed coronavirus cases and 112,326 confirmed deaths, although official estimates of deaths are closer to 150,000.

t even man's best friend has escaped pandemic.

Mexico's Agriculture Department confirmed Thursday a total of four dogs that h been in contact with humans infected with coronavirus h tested positive for virus.

ne of four Mexico City-area dogs have COVID-19 symptoms. But department urged people who have coronavirus to isolate mselves from ir pets as a protective measure, though it ded re is indication that humans are at risk of getting infected from ir dogs or cats. Infections in animals have previously been documented in or countries.

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