Mexico registers 147 deaths and 3,988 cases of coronavirus in one day

The Ministry of Health of Mexico reported this Sunday 147 new deaths from covid-19 for a total of 275,446 deaths, in addition to another 3,988 new cases to reach 3,632,800 infections.

With these figures, Mexico remains the fourth country with the most deaths from covid-19 behind the United States, Brazil and India, and the fifteenth in number of confirmed infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

The Mexican government assured earlier this week that the third wave of covid-19 that has affected the country for more than three months reached eight weeks of reduction.

The health authorities have recognized that based on the death certificates the pandemic would be around 400,000 deaths in the country and estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 3,847,383 infections.

Of this figure, 64,452 are active cases, which have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and which account for 1.7%.

In addition, 2,984,461 people have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals is 35% and 31% for intensive care beds.

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that the vaccination program, which includes all those over 18 years of age, accumulates 99.2 million doses applied, adding 291,192 during the last day.

The report also specified that 44.5 million people have completed the vaccination schedule, of the total 126 million inhabitants that the country has, that is, 35.2% of the population.

Since the end of December 2020, the country has received 114.04 million doses of the Anglo-Swedish vaccines AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V, the American Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, in addition to the Chinese CanSino and Sinovac.

According to estimates by the Mexican Government, by the end of October more than 120 million doses will have been received and before the end of 2021 there will be a total of 150 million doses.

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