Mexico's Undersecretary for Health Prevention and Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said that high mortality from COVID-19 is explained by such factors as social inequality, poor nutrition, limited health capacity, and corruption.

"The mortality rate of a country depends a lot on its social reality, and our society's structural inequality has grown exponentially over the past 40 years,” Lopez-Gatell said.

He also indicated that deaths are also related to the health profile of the population affected by chronic diseases associated with poor nutrition, smoking, obesity, hypertension and diabetes.

The official also pointed out that the health services have not received a major upgrade since the 1980s and there is a deficit of 240,000 health professionals mainly in rural areas.

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