Mexico registers 3,719 cases and 107 deaths from coronavirus on Christmas weekend

The Ministry of Health (SSa) of Mexico reported this Sunday that the country registered 107 new deaths this Christmas weekend from the covid-19 to reach 298,777 total deaths and 3,719 new infections for a total of 3,951,003.

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 Government did not report figures on December 25 because it was a Christmas holiday.

The health authorities recognize that, based on the death certificates, the pandemic would be around 448,000 deaths in the country and estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 4,174,729 infections.

Of the number of cases, there are 20,568 active, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days.

In addition, 3,300,843 people have recovered since the start of the pandemic.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 13% and the use of intensive care beds at 11%.

Mexico detected the first person infected with the omicron variant on December 3 and since then there have been more than 40 cases confirmed by the state governments of Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Nuevo León and Sinaloa.

Even so, the federal government published its new epidemic risk traffic light in which, as of this Monday, 28 of the 32 states of the country will be green for minimal danger.

Meanwhile, the other four states will be in yellow for medium risk: Baja California, Chihuahua and Sonora, on the northern border, and Aguascalientes in the center of the country.

Unlike other countries, Mexico spent Christmas holidays without restrictions due to the pandemic.

The Ministry of Health affirmed that the current epidemic week begins with an 8% decrease in the number of estimated cases compared to last week.

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program 148.5 million doses have been applied, adding 37,650 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 its 126 million inhabitants, 81.9 million in the country have at least one dose of the vaccine, that is, 87% of the total population of legal age.

Of that total, 89% (72.69 million) have completed their vaccination schedule.

Since the end of December 2020, almost 200 million vaccine doses have arrived in Mexico from the American companies Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino or Sinovac.

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