Mexico surpassed 35,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Sunday, overtaking Italy to come to be the country with the fourth-most fatalities from the virus.

Data reported by Mexico’s overall health ministry and received by Bloomberg Information also indicated that the state is on the verge of passing 300,000 overall confirmed infections of the disorder, with 276 new deaths and 4,482 new scenarios claimed Sunday.

The amount of new scenarios is decreased than the country’s record, which was established just times in the past on July 9 when Mexican officials described much more than 7,000 new infections in one particular working day. Overall deaths in region have also surpassed some European nations strike most difficult by the illness including France and Spain.

Mexico’s statistics remain significantly decreased than its neighbor to the north, nevertheless, as the selection of U.S. coronavirus instances has shot past 3 million and quite a few states like Florida continue on to set information for quantities of new scenarios for every working day. Much more than 134,000 Us residents have died so far from the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Command (CDC).

The U.S.-Mexico border was closed for most nonessential crossings in the spring because of to problems about the virus’s unfold, and officials are at this time searching for to extend that closure into August.