Mexico registers 10,864 new infections and 116 new deaths from coronavirus

The Ministry of Health (SSa) of Mexico reported this Sunday that the country registered 116 new deaths from covid-19 to reach 299,544 total deaths and 10,864 new infections for a total of 3,990,587.

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The 10,864 infections exceeded the 10,037 cases on December 31, the last day of the year.

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It should be remembered that the authorities did not publish the death and infection figures for January 1.

In less than a week, Mexico doubled the number of infections by covid-19 since last Wednesday it registered 5,290 cases and on Friday the figure was 10,037 while this Sunday it approached 11,000 confirmed cases.

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

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 4,216,468 infections.

Of the number of cases, there are 48,801 active, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 1.2% of the total.

In addition, 3,312,333 people have recovered since the start of the pandemic.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 14% and the use of intensive care beds at 12%.

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.

But according to data from the Gisaid platform (by its name in English (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data) there are already 254 cases of omicron infections.

Last Tuesday, the Mexican undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion and in charge of managing the pandemic in Mexico, Hugo López-Gatell, assured that in the country “the participation of the omicron variant is frequently overestimated.”

“As we have said since October, it is indisputable that at some point in Mexico, as has happened in other countries, there may be a fourth wave,” he said.

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

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

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program 148.94 million doses have been applied, adding 4,753 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, 81.91 million in the country have at least one dose of the vaccine, that is, 88% of the total population.

Of that total, 89% (72.84 million) have completed their vaccination schedule.

Since the end of December 2020, 198.52 million doses of vaccines 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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