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Mexico reports record toll of coronavirus deaths, new infections

Mexican health authorities reported 1,092 novel coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, the country's highest toll in one day so far, with total infections surging past 100,000, as the Latin American country emerges as a major center of the pandemic. 

Mexico had planned to start reopening the country after measures designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.