Mexico registered this Monday 164 new Covid-19 infections, the lowest daily number of cases recorded in the year. The Ministry of Health detailed that the accumulated number of confirmed cases at the national level is 5 million 727,832 people who have been infected with the coronavirus.
It should be remembered that the last time a similar number of daily confirmed cases was recorded was on April 3, 2020, when 178 infections were reported.
The daily technical report on the progress of the epidemic in the country detailed this April 18 that the number of deaths due to the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 amounted to 323,949 deaths, after five new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
The agency reported that at the national level there are an estimated 4,058 active cases, that is, people who have presented signs and symptoms of the disease. Covid-19.
Regarding hospital capacity, the occupancy of general beds stands at 4%, one percentage point more than what was registered yesterday, while beds with ventilators for the care of seriously ill patients maintain an occupancy of 2 percent.
As a result of the sustained reduction in infections of Covid-19from this Monday, April 18 and until Sunday, May 1, the 32 states will continue in green color of the Epidemic Risk Traffic Light for the third consecutive period.
Advance of vaccination against Covid-19 in Mexico
The Ministry of Health detailed that at the cutoff on Sunday, April 17, 71,393 vaccines against the coronavirus were supplied, for which the total doses applied in the country amounted to 195,891,966 million.
Of the 85,710,647 people who have been inoculated against Covid-19 in Mexico, 79,947,470 have a complete vaccination schedule.
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