The health minister of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Dr. Jesus Grajeda, has died, Chihuahua's governor said on Sunday, nearly two weeks after Grajeda was hospitalized with the COVID-19 disease.
"I have no words to express all my feelings in this moment, except for profound sadness," Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral wrote on Facebook on Sunday morning, saying Grajeda had died of heart failure.
With more than 385,000 confirmed cases and nearly 43,500 deaths as of Saturday, Mexico has the world's fourth-highest death toll from the coronavirus.
Latin America is the region most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Brazil, Latin America’s largest nation, is one of the outbreak’s epicenters.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has topped 16 million.
According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, the US leads the count with 4.1 million, followed by 2.3 million in Brazil and 1.3 million in India.
The US also has the highest number of deaths with 146,460, followed by 86,449 in Brazil and 45,823 in the UK.
