Mexico becomes fourth country to hit 100,000 Covid-19 deaths

Healthcare worker Marco Antonio Galicia wears a protective face mask designed with a Mexican wrestler motif (Marco Ugarte/AP)

Mexico has passed the 100,000 mark in Covid-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country to do so.

Jose Luis Alomia Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epidemiology, said there were 100,104 confirmed Covid-19 deaths as of Thursday, leaving the country trailing just the United States, Brazil and India in terms of overall death toll.