Mexico's new single-day record for COVID-19

Mexico posted new one-day highs for pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for previous 24 hours.

recent surge in cases has swamped hospitals. Mexico City is country's epicentre of pandemic, and its hospitals are at 89% capacity, while nationwide 61% of hospital beds are filled.

Health undersecretary Hugo Lopez Gatell said Friday crisis was still accelerating.

People in Mexico City expressed concern at latest figures.

"This is real," said public-sector worker Armando Roman as he surveyed grim helines at a newspaper stand. "re are a lot of people dying."

difficulty in finding in hospitals has led many families to try to treat ir relatives at home, which has created shorts of oxygen and tanks.

That has been accompanied by a jump in prices as well as an increase in fts targeting oxygen tanks.