Juárez has 12 more virus deaths, accounts for over 80% of all fatalities in Chihuahua state
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Another 12 victims of the coronavirus have died in the city Juárez, Chihuahua state health officials said Thursday.
That brought the death toll in Juárez from the pandemic to 306, which represents over 80% of the 378 fatalities tallied to date for all of the state.
Over half of all the state's victims, health leaders said, have been adults with underlying medical issues such as diabetes, hypertension or obesity.
Juárez on Thursday also reached 1,354 confirmed infections, which is over percent 60% of the 2,193 total cases in the entire state.
Of the 53 new confirmed cases statewide on Thursday, 24 were from Juárez, while 23 were from Chihuahua city and the six others from elsewhere in the state.
Health officials have previously acknowledged that thousands more in Juárez are likely infected beyond what the official count shows - but those people haven’t required hospital care, which is typically when almost all testing occurs in Mexico.
Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, Mexico's northern zone medical director, also said over 500 healthcare workers in Chihuahua state had been infected thus far during the pandemic - with 11 of those workers dying from the virus to date.
