Wednesday marked the deadliest day in the COVID-19 pandemic south of the border.
This comes as the country recorded over 221,000 new infections.
The U.S. reported 3,124 deaths on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
That single-day total is more than the number of people killed on Sept. 11, Hurricane Katrina and the Pearl Harbor attack.
The Covid Tracking Project is reporting a record 106,668 COVID-19 hospitalizations.