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The Undersecretary for Prevention and Health PromotionHugo López-Gatell Ramírez reported that the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico adds nine weeks to the decline in the country.
“We continue with an excellent situation in a very accelerated progressive decrease of new cases of the disease, nine consecutive weeks and this is very consistent throughout the national territory”, he stressed.
Overall bed occupancy fell to 4 percent and fan beds to 1 percent, while deaths recorded one death as a daily average.
“Vaccination against COVID-19 is what made the biggest difference, not only in Mexico but in the whole world, between a very serious disease at the beginning of the epidemic and a disease that ceased to be serious once we reached levels. important vaccination coverage, ”he explained.
Immunization in girls and boys aged 5 to 11 with the first dose is 47% early and reported progress for the second vaccine is 8.7%.
“We continue to advance in the first dose, but also to put in the second dose already as long as the vaccines have arrived in sufficient quantities,” he said.
In a morning press conference with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the undersecretary announced that, as of September 13, vaccination coverage is 82 percent in people of all ages; 91% in adults aged 18 and over and 64% in adolescents aged 12 to 17.
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