On April 8, twenty medical and nursing schools withdrew their students from social service in hospitals due to the lack of adequate protection. Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, head of the Undersecretariat of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Mexican Secretariat of Health, estimated there were unconfirmed 26,519 cases of COVID-19 in the country. In the evening it was announced that Mexico surpassed the three thousand confirmed cases with 3,181 cases and 174 deaths. The following day, 260 more cases and 20 more deaths were reported by Mexican authorities. José Ignacio Precaido Santos of the General Health Council announced that at least 146 private hospitals will make beds available to treat COVID-19 patients on a non-profit basis.Mexican government will use private hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients El Universal , April 8, 2020
