:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elfinanciero/MN7GFQRTCFHZTFWLMGCUESYBBU.jpg "COVID-19 in Mexico: There are 19,636 cases and 114 deaths in a week")
In the last seven days, Mexico reported 19,636 new cases and 114 deaths from COVID-19. After 14 days on the rise, infections and deaths report a slight drop compared to the last week of February.
According to the agency’s weekly technical report, as of this Tuesday, March 7, Mexico accumulates 7 million 471 thousand 65 positive cases and 333 thousand 102 deaths because of the virus.
Los estimated active cases of COVID They had a slight reduction. To this day, they detected 24,458, a reduction of 557 infections compared to last week, which are found predominantly in the following entities: Mexico City, Colima, Baja California Sur, Nuevo León, Tlaxcala, Baja California, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo and the State of Mexico.
Active cases are considered to be those positive that started symptoms in the last 14 daysmaking it possible to identify where there is greater viral activity and increased transmission of the virus.
Regarding the confirmed COVID cases accumulated by state, the first 10 entities that accumulate the highest number of cases are: Mexico City, State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Tabasco, Puebla and Sonora, which together they make up 64 percent of all accumulated cases registered in the country.
COVID ‘abandons’ the Mexican southeast a few days before Easter
Entities in the southeast of Mexico present less than 200 active cases of COVID according to the Ministry of Health.
Its number of cases is much lower than the Mexico City, which reports 6,900 active infectionsas well as Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Puebla and the State of Mexico, which each have more than a thousand positive reports in the last 14 days.
The states with the least active cases of COVID this week are:
- campeche: 10 cases.
- Chiapas: 10 cases.
- Tabasco: 25 cases.
- Yucatan: 87 cases.
- Quintana Roo: 142 cases.
