Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued Friday a rare rebuke of a Trump administration policy, criticizing the U.S. government's renewed travel warning for Mexico, which puts it in the same league as war-torn countries around the world.

The State Department on Thursday lifted a number of coronavirus-related travel restrictions, but left Mexico — the top foreign destination for American travelers — on its Level 4 Health Advisory list.

Speaking at his daily press conference, López Obrador said, "Our situation is better."

“We have many fewer problems with the pandemic than the problems that, unfortunately, they are facing,” said López Obrador.

Mexico has the third most coronavirus deaths in the world, after the United States and Brazil, but it ranks 13th globally in deaths per capita, according to a report by Reuters.

López Obrador has been critical of media coverage of Mexico's coronavirus efforts, complaining that Mexico's total death rate features prominently in the headlines.

Despite the high number of deaths, Mexico has had relatively few confirmed cases of COVID-19, as the country's testing rate is among the lowest in the world, at around 4 tests per 100,000 inhabitants per day, compared to the American rate of 182 per inhabitant per day, according to Johns Hopkins.

The travel advisory will affect the movement of people on the southwest border, where many inhabitants on either side of the international line use goods and services across the border for their daily lives.

The State Department travel advisory is the second Trump administration action in as many days to raise tensions with a North American neighbor, after Trump Thursday slapped aluminum tariffs on Canada.