Mexico registers 52 deaths and 855 coronavirus infections in one day

The Ministry of Health of Mexico reported this Sunday that the country registered 52 new deaths from the covid-19 to reach 296,672 total deaths and 855 new infections for a total of 3,918,216.

With these figures, Mexico It 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 health authorities recognize that, based on the death certificates, the pandemic would be around 440,000 deaths in the country and they estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 4,141,481 infections.

Of the number of cases, there are 19,160 active, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 0.5% of the total.

In addition, 3,273,260 people have recovered since the start of the pandemic.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 15% and the use of intensive care beds at 12%.

Regarding deaths, Mexico City, the focus of the pandemic, accumulates about 18% of all deaths nationwide.

Just Tuesday Mexico It finally began to vaccinate with booster doses against covid-19 to all those over 60 years of age, but the authorities do not currently foresee booster vaccines for the rest of the population.

The booster dose campaign comes after the first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus was detected last weekend in the country.

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program more than 137.17 million doses have been applied, adding 340,364 during the last day.

Of its 126 million inhabitants, 80.39 million adults in the country have at least one dose of the vaccine, that is, 87% of the total population of legal age.

Of that total, 82% (66.15 million) have completed their vaccination schedule.

Since the end of December 2020 they have reached Mexico 185.9 million vaccine doses from the American companies Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino and Sinovac.

A week ago Mexico universal adolescent vaccination started.

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