Fourth wave of Covid-19: Mexico registers 20,872 new infections

The Ministry of Health reported 20,872 this Sunday new infections of Covid-19 in the country, to register a cumulative of 4 million 667,829 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours.

The number of deaths due to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 amounted to 303,183 deaths, after 98 new deaths were reported.

In the daily technical report on the progress of the epidemic of the Covid-19 in Mexico It is detailed that the federal health authorities estimate that there are 338,056 active cases in the country, i.e. people who have shown symptoms of this condition in the last 14 days.

The agency highlighted that 3 million 704 448 people in the country recovered after suffering Covid-19.

In the framework of fourth wave of Covid-19 Mainly attributed to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, occupancy of general beds remains at 41%, while beds with a fan register an occupancy of 25%, one percentage point more than reported yesterday.

Epidemiological traffic light from 24 January to 6 February

Last Friday, the Ministry of Health reported that during the next two weeks (January 24 to February 6) Aguascalientes will be the only federal entity that will turn red in the Covid-19 epidemiological traffic lightwhile nine states will be in orange, 10 will be in yellow and 12 in green.

  • an orange: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Quintana Roo, Sonora and Zacatecas.
  • in yellow: Mexico City, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Yucatán.
  • They will be green: Campeche, Colima, Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Tlaxcala and Veracruz.

Despite the increase in infections in Mexico City, the capital has ruled out the implementation of new restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has intensified in the presence of Omicroncharacterized by being more contagious than the others variant of Covid-19 detect.

Vaccination against Covid-19 in Mexico

With the cut-off of Saturday 22 January, the Ministry of Health has 606,953 vaccines against Covid-19so that 160 million 480 629 doses have been administered nationwide since the vaccination plan began on 24 December 2020.

The federal government stressed that 83 million were 323,226 people vaccinated against coronavirusof which 76 million 519,923 have a complete scheme of one or two doses, depending on the type of biological administered.

The Ministry of Health reiterated that to prevent the spread of Covid-19 it is necessary to maintain basic preventive measures: healthy distance, regular hand washing with soap and water or application of alcohol gel, as well as the correct use of face masks and maintenance ventilation in enclosed spaces.

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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx

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