Mexico registers 41,115 new cases and 648 deaths from coronavirus

Mexico registered this Thursday 41,115 new infections of the COVID-19 to reach a total of 5,068,985 cases, in addition to 648 deaths to total 308,141 deaths, reported the Ministry of Health.

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With these data, Mexico is the fourteenth country in the world in number of confirmed infections and is the fifth with the most deaths from this cause, behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

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The health authorities recognize that, based on death certificates, the country may be close to 460,000 deaths and estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 5,332,816 infections.

Of the confirmed infections, there are 213,837 active cases, which have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 4% of the total.

In addition, since the start of the pandemic, 4,209,605 people have recovered.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 44% and that of intensive care at 29%.

Unlike other countries, Mexico spent Christmas holidays without restrictions due to the pandemic. And despite the rise in infections in the fourth wave, the Government has defended its management of the health crisis in addition to the fact that it did not apply additional restrictions during the omicron attack.

On Tuesday, the Mexican government assured that “the maximum point” of the current fourth wave of covid-19, the highest in contagion figures, has passed, for which the country entered a “descent phase.”

“There are several signs that show us that we have already reached the acme point and we have passed the peak of this fourth wave of covid-19 in Mexico, dominated by the omicron variant, and we are already in the descent phase,” Hugo López declared. -Gatell, official in charge of the pandemic in the country.

Although he acknowledged that “mortality is still on an upward trend” and attributed it to people who are not vaccinated.

Also on Tuesday, health authorities reported 829 deaths, the highest number reported during the fourth wave of the pandemic in the country.

Precisely regarding deaths, Mexico City, the focus of the pandemic, accumulates about 17.5% of all deaths nationwide.

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program more than 167.68 million doses have been administered, adding 912,585 during the last day.

The Government of Mexico affirms that it is the seventh country that has applied the most doses in absolute numbers.

Of the 126 million inhabitants, 83.72 million Mexicans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, with which 89% of the population aged 18 and over have received at least one dose.

Meanwhile, 77.37 million have completed their vaccination schedule.

Last week, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assured that the country has reserves of 30 million vaccines against covid-19 for this 2022.

Since the end of December 2020, 201.3 million vaccine doses have arrived in Mexico from the American Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino and Sinovac.

On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced that in February Mexico will receive from the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO), 15 million doses of AstraZeneca, the drug that the country uses to supply reinforcements.

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Source: Elcomercio

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