Covid-19: Mexico adds 293,897 deaths and 3 million 883,842 confirmed cases

The Ministry of Health reported this Sunday 1,050 new cases of Covid-19 in Mexico, to reach a cumulative of 3 million 883,842 infections since the pandemic arrived in the country.

According to the daily technical report on the progress of the epidemic, the death toll rose to 293,897, after 38 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.

The federal agency reported that it estimates 22,034 active cases, that is, people who have presented Covid-19 symptoms in the last 14 days. While 3 million 240,521 people have been recovered after suffering from the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Regarding hospital capacity, the occupancy of general beds stands at 16% and that of beds with a fan at 13%, both registered a percentage point less occupancy than that reported yesterday.

Vaccination against Covid-19 in Mexico

The Ministry of Health detailed that 211,396 vaccines against the coronavirus were applied to the cutoff on Saturday, November 27, to register a total of 132 million 308,788 doses supplied since the vaccination campaign began on December 24, 2020.

Of the 76 million 609,987 people inoculated against Covid-19 nationwide, 11 million 687,091 are still waiting to complete their vaccination schedule. While 64 million 922,896 people already have the complete scheme of one or two doses, depending on the type of biological applied.

Omicron variant

This weekend the attention of the health authorities worldwide has been maintained in the advance of the new variant of Covid-19, called Ómicron, which on Friday the World Health Organization (WHO) considered “worrisome”.

Omicron, which was first detected in South Africa, now has confirmed cases in Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy and the Netherlands.

On Saturday night, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, published a message on his Twitter account in which he considered that the global concern about the new variant of the coronavirus is “disproportionate” and the travel restrictions and border closures that some governments have considered imposing to control the spread of this new variant are “unhelpful measures.”

Meanwhile, this Sunday the head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, commented that the sanitary measures implemented at the capital’s International Airport would be strengthened (AICM) to detect possible infections of the variant Omicron. However, he reiterated that coordination with the federal government is being maintained.

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