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Mexico is approaching the most difficult part of the pandemic, assured the World Health Organization (WHO), a panorama that is beginning to be perceived in the country that already registered the first day of the pandemic with more than a thousand infections in the past 22 of April. In addition to this, the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López Gatell, announced in his evening conference that it is estimated that 8 out of 10 critically ill Mexicans will die from COVID-19.
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Critically ill people, who have severe respiratory failure, will require treatment in intensive therapy with mechanical ventilatory support, that is, intubation. But, the percentage of people who could lose the battle against the disease is between 70 and 80%.
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He also reported that the lethality of the virus is high, since it moves between 5 and 7%. For this reason, he urged citizens to not minimize the epidemic Because the country is going through a “historically important” phenomenon that had not been seen in the world since the influenza pandemic in 1918, more than a hundred years ago.
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He explained that it was before this panorama that the health authorities developed guidelines for the massive handling of corpses. “If we had an excess of cases that saturate the National Health System (…) it would also (happen with) the conventional systems of funeral services that are mostly private and those that exist in the public system.”
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The undersecretary He called the pandemic “extremely unusual” due to the accelerated behavior it has exhibited in the country. Although the epidemic phase of the disease was declared only on April 21, 24 hours later the record of confirmed cases exceeded 1,000 infected.
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Until now, the country has registered 10 thousand 544 infected patients and a total of 970 dead people by COVID-19, since the spread of the virus began in Mexico on February 28.
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On active casesIn other words, those positive for 14 days, the Ministry of Health reported that they reach 3 thousand 618. Their importance lies in the fact that they drive, to a large extent, the development of the pandemic.
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The increase in active patients is 11.9%, in accordance with EFE, which represents an increase of 443 people. López-Gatell confirmed that the death rate went from 857 to 970 in the last 24 hours, a total of 113 more deaths
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Metropolitan areas like the Valley of Mexico They are the places where more cases have been registered. Other cities with similar pandemic activity have been Baja California, Tijuana and Mexicali, where the numbers have risen considerably.
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However, according to incidence rates, that is, the number of new cases divided by the population size of a defined territory, the places with the highest levels are Mexico City, Tabasco and Baja California, while Jalisco and San Luis Potosí are at the bottom of that list.
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The undersecretary also highlighted an “extremely high” frequency of diseases Chronicles like diabetes, obesity, hypertension, all associated with poor diet.
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