Authorities of the Health Secretary reported that so far the country has accumulated 221 thousand 597 deaths by Covid-19.
Namely, Mexico added 341 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the number of infections increased to 2 million 395 thousand 330, this after reporting 2 thousand 586 new cases since the last report.
With this data, Mexico It ranks as the fourth country in the world with the most deaths, behind the United States, Brazil and India, and the fifteenth in number of confirmed infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
However, the real data are higher, since the government itself recognized at the end of April in the updated report of “Excess Mortality in Mexico” that deaths associated with Covid-19 they are just over 332 thousand 500 after an analysis of death certificates.
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Since the beginning of the health emergency, Mexico has studied 6.93 million patients, added the SSa report.
The number of estimated cases is 2 million 581 thousand 620 when considering those awaiting the test result, among which there are 18 thousand 786 estimated active cases, that is, less than 1%, who have presented symptoms in the last 14 days.
The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals is 11% and 14% in terms of intensive care beds with a ventilator.
Hospital occupancy has dropped 86% compared to the maximum peak reached in January, when hospitals in several cities, including the capital, were saturated.
With regard to deaths, Mexico City, the focus of the pandemic, accumulates almost one in every five deaths nationwide.
The Health report recalled that the epidemiological traffic light for the next two weeks places 16 of the 32 states of Mexico in green (low risk), 15 yellow (medium risk) and one in orange (high risk).
Vaccination Plan
On Friday, 516 thousand 563 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in Mexico. In total, 26 million 148 thousand 948 doses have been applied throughout the country.
In addition, 11 million 720 thousand 188 people have received the necessary doses or the single-dose drug of CanSino to complete the vaccination schedule.
The authorities expect that, on average, 500 thousand people will be vaccinated per day so that the Mexican population, over 18 years of age, will be vaccinated in October, a goal that can be achieved if the arrival of vaccines to the country continues in the coming weeks .
Since December 23, he has received 33 million 469 thousand 715 doses of five pharmaceuticals.
For now, the vaccination program includes adults over 60 years of age, adults between 50 and 59 years of age, pregnant women, medical personnel and some of the educational personnel.
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Mexico, with 126 million inhabitants, has committed 34.4 million doses of the American vaccine Pfizer, 79.4 million of the British AstraZeneca, 35 million of the Chinese CanSino, 24 million of the Russian Sputnik V, 20 million of the Chinese Sinovac, 12 million from the also Chinese Sinopharm and 51.4 million from the Covax platform.
More than a million deaths from Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
More than a million people have died from Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean, reported the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F Etienne.
“The lives of a million people have been cut short by covid-19. This is a tragic milestone for all the inhabitants of the region,” Etienne said on Friday, recalling that “this pandemic is far from having over, and it’s hitting Latin America hard. “
Carissa F Etienne regretted that vaccines have so far only reached 3% of the population and that most countries in the region depend on fluctuations in global stocks to receive them.
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According to data published this Friday by PAHO, “1,001,781 people have died from the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. Almost 89% of these deaths occurred in five countries: Brazil (44.3% ), Mexico (22.1%), Colombia (8.3%), Argentina (7.3) and Peru (6.7%) “.
“3% of all deaths occurred in Central America and 1% in the Caribbean,” according to PAHO.
“The region is an epicenter of suffering from covid-19. It should also be an epicenter for vaccination,” Etienne stressed, recalling that “more than 153.5 million people have been vaccinated in the Americas, but only 21 , 6% of them are in Latin America and the Caribbean.
With information from EFE
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