At the cut of this Sunday, March 21, Mexico added 2,133 contagions by Covid-19, to give a total of 2 million 195 thousand 772 confirmed cases, reported health authorities during the technical report of coronavirus.
Likewise, it was detailed that the number of deaths increased to 198,036, that is, 209 more than the day before.
With these figures, Mexico ranks thirteenth in the world in number of infections and third with the most deaths from the pandemic, behind the United States and Brazil, according to the US Johns Hopkins University.
Regarding the details of the vaccination plan, the general director of Health Promotion, Ricardo Cortés Alcalá, explained that this Sunday at the cut-off of 4:00 p.m., nationwide, they were applied 109 thousand 387 doses from Covid-19 vaccine a older adults.
It also reported that since the beginning of the national vaccination strategy, a total of 5 million 612 thousand 291 doses.
In relation to the development of a Mexican vaccine against Covid-19, Cortés Alcalá stated that the University of Querétaro is having results to be able to advance in clinical trials.
When asked if the Health Secretary It has financing programs for this type of scientific development, the general director of Health Promotion said: “We do not have this type of support contemplated, that is why there is Conacyt and specific organizations that must finance this type of projects.”
Youth hospitalizations increase in Brazil
In Brazilian hospitals there are more and more faces without wrinkles and hair without gray hair. The coronavirus, which initially wreaked havoc on the elderly population, is beginning to take its toll on the very young.
In the crowded intensive care unit (ICU) of the Emilio Ribas hospital in Sao Paulo, Dr. Jaques Sztajnbok leads the morning medical meeting. In the room there is a 53-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man, both intubated. A few meters away, a boy twists and looks disoriented, although he breathes on his own. He is 26 years old.
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