Mexico registers 141 deaths and 4,114 cases of coronavirus

Mexico reported 141 new deaths and 4,114 infections from covid-19 this Saturday, bringing the total to 5,633,928 cases and accumulating 322,072 deaths in total, reported the Ministry of Health.

On February 10, the country reported 927 deaths, the highest figure during the current fourth wave, driven by the omicron variant since December.

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With these data, Mexico is the sixteenth 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.

The health authorities recognize that, based on death certificates, the country may be close to 460,000 deaths and they estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 5,911,512 infections.

Of the confirmed infections, there are 16,220 active cases, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 0.3% of the total.

In addition, since the start of the pandemic, 4,927,029 people have recovered.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 10% and that of intensive care at 6%, with a downward trend.

Last Tuesday, the official in charge of managing the pandemic in the country, Hugo López-Gatell, said that Mexico has added “seven consecutive weeks of reduction in the epidemic” and pointed out that “it is already a very sustained trend and we will surely reach minimum levels. of this epidemic”, after the fourth wave of infections.

On February 28, Mexico celebrated two years since the first confirmed case of coronavirus, and did so as the fifth country in the world with the most deaths, a criticized management of the pandemic and an immunization plan that is advancing at a good pace but without contemplating to all age groups.

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program more than 188.57 million doses have been administered, adding 413,377 during the last day.

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

Of the 126 million inhabitants, 85.52 million Mexicans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, with which 90% of the population aged 18 and over has received at least one application.

Meanwhile, 79.52 million people have completed their vaccination schedule.

Since the end of December 2020, 224.35 million doses of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines from the United States have arrived in Mexico; the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino and Sinovac.

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Source: Elcomercio

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