The Mexican Health Ministry announced that the number of confirmed cases of the emerging coronavirus has risen to 450,000, after 6,148 new cases were recorded.
The ministry said, according to the American network (CNN), today, Wednesday - that the death toll from the virus has risen to 48,869 cases, after recording 857 new deaths.
It is noteworthy that the new Corona virus (Covid-19) appeared in late December 2019 in the Chinese city of "Wuhan" in a market for selling wild animals, then spread quickly with a massive movement of citizens to spend the Lunar New Year holiday last January.