/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-infobae.s3.amazonaws.com/public/34MFE2YCWNEDPJPAWEWOAZ67FM.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "The most critical stage of the coronavirus in CDMX: intubated patients tripled in the last two weeks")
The head of government of Mexico City (CDMX), Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that Between April 12 and 26, 2020, the number of patients infected coronavirus needing intubation increased to 685 cases.
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The Mexican capital has been declared by the health authorities as the main red spot in the country for being the entity with the highest number of cases. Currently, it has 3 thousand 764 positive people for COVID-19, 307 deaths and a total of active cases, with symptoms within the last 14 days, of 1,440.
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TO early April there were 265 people intubatedThis was the first time that the capital authorities gave the figure in this area; however, Sheinbaum announced that this amount increased three times in just two weeks.
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Also, so far there are thousand 760 people hospitalized in the CDMX by coronavirus and another 1,880 are found as suspects.
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Refering to hospital occupation, the head of government announced that It is 43%, but also added that the hospitalization system will increase with the arrival of 500 new ventilators. With them, he assured that would increase the capacity of intensive care areas for patients with COVID-19.
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Announced that City Government hospitals will be used for public medical attention in cases of the pandemic. These are the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE), the Coordinating Commission of National Institutes of Health and High Specialty Hospitals (CCINSAHE), the General Hospital of Mexico, General Hospital “Dr. Manuel Gea González ”and the Hospital Juárez de México.
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He assured that the capital is coordinating with the State of Mexico to supervise the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, as it is expected that the following week there will be an increase in the intensive care areas.
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In addition to having made the use of face masks mandatory, they announced that the preventive measures at the Central de Abastos will be more stringent, after several merchants tested COVID-19 positive.
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Among them are the prohibition of entry to pregnant women, children and the elderly, the permanent disinfection of warehouses and the entry of only two people in private vehicles.
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At the national level, Health Secretary (SSa) has registered 14 thousand 677 cases and thousand 351 deaths related to this disease. Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, explained that the behavior of the pandemic is according to what was expected according to different specialists.
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In municipalities with few or no cases of the disease, such as San Pedro Garza GarcíaIn Nuevo León, the measures implemented by the National Day of Healthy Distance may be lifted from May 18.
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The five most affected entities are the Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Tabasco, Baja California and Sinaloa; while the least affected by the coronavirus are Campeche, Nayarit, Durango, San Luis Potosí and Colima.
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