MEXICO CITY (AP) – After months of closing temporary hospitalization spaces as the pandemic subsided, Mexico announced on Friday that it will reopen two temporary wards to deal with a spike in COVID-19 cases.
The Mexican Social Security Institute indicated that the two 30- and 40-bed pavilions will be opened in covered areas in hospital parking lots in the state of Baja California Sur, in the northwest of the country.
Like the state of Quintana Roo on the Caribbean coast, Baja California Sur relies heavily on tourism, and the two states have seen increases in the number of cases.
Nationwide, coronavirus cases are up 14% compared to last week, after months of declining.
Hospital occupancy across the country remains at approximately 17% of capacity, but in some states it has increased to worrying levels.
Mexico has registered more than 232,300 deaths from COVID-19 confirmed with diagnostic tests, but the government’s own calculations put the true figure at around 360,000.
So far the country has received 51.7 million doses of coronavirus vaccines and has applied 42.8 million doses. It has 126 million inhabitants.
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