Mexico exceeds 300,000 deaths from coronavirus

Mexico this Friday surpassed the 300,000 confirmed deaths of covid-19, adding 168 in the last 24 hours and reaching 300,101 deaths since the start of the pandemic, reported the Ministry of Health (SSa).

With these data, the country remains the fifth in the world with the most deaths from covid-19, behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

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In addition, the country added 28,023 new infections, bringing it to a total of 4,083,118 and remains the sixteenth country in the world in number of confirmed infections.

The number of reported infections is the second highest number of confirmed cases in a day since August 18, 2021 when 28,953 new cases were registered, the same day in which it reached the highest number of deaths in the third wave, with 940, with which Mexico exceeded 250,000 deaths.

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This Friday’s figure exceeded the maximum peaks of the first (9,866) and second wave (22,339).

Mexico, which is now experiencing a fourth rebound since August, reported its first death from coronavirus On March 18, 2020 and almost a year later, on March 25, 2021, it exceeded 200,000 deaths from covid-19.

The health authorities recognize that, based on the death certificates, the pandemic would be around 451,000 deaths in the country and they estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 4,316,404 infections.

Of the number of cases, there are 128,929 active, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 2.9% of the total.

In addition, 3,330,210 people have recovered since the start of the pandemic.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 19% and the use of intensive care beds at 12%.

On Tuesday, the Mexican government maintained its defense of its management of the pandemic and ruled out a fourth wave just as the country is about to reach 300,000 deaths and after days registering numbers of infections not seen in months.

Unlike other countries, Mexico He 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.

This Friday, there was a crisis at the International Airport of the City of Mexico after long lines and crowds were created due to a massive contagion between personnel of several airlines.

VACCINATION PLAN

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program 150.77 million doses have been applied, adding 669,025 during the last day.

The government of Mexico states that it is the seventh country that has applied the most doses in absolute numbers.

Of its 126 million inhabitants, 82.22 million in the country have at least one dose of the vaccine.

Meanwhile, 73.51 million have completed their vaccination schedule.

Since the end of December 2020 they have reached Mexico 198.52 million vaccine doses from the American companies Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino or Sinovac.

Also on Tuesday, the Mexican government said that the country expects to have the Cuban vaccine Abdala against covid-19 in the second quarter of 2022 and it would be contemplated as a booster dose.

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