The Ministry of Health reported 49 343 on Tuesday new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a new record figure registered in the almost two years since the pandemic began in the country, for which the accumulated number of infections amounted to 4 million 434 758 infections.
In the daily technical report on the progress of the pandemic in the country, the death due to coronavirus amounted to 301,789 deaths, after 320 new deaths were registered, a figure not seen since November 2021.
The last time the federal agency reported more than 300 new registered deaths within 24 hours was on November 24 last year, when 263 deaths were reported.
The federal agency estimates that there are 306,212 nationwide active cases, that is, people who have been experiencing symptoms of Covid-19 for the past 14 days.
In terms of hospitalizations, occupancy of general beds for the care of patients infected with the new coronavirus stands at 34%, three percentage points more than reported yesterday. While occupancy of beds with a ventilator for the care of seriously ill patients increased by two percentage points to 19 percent.
In the morning conference at the National Palace, the Deputy Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, reiterated that deaths and hospitalizations due to the coronavirus are 10 times less than the number of infections registered so far, due to the fact that the Omicron variant It is characterized by causing a picture with “mild” symptoms.
“Cases are on the left axis, which is 10 times larger than hospitalizations and deaths, this is a very significant difference from the cases produced by the Omicron variant which is growing fast but hospitalizations and deaths are not growing fast” Lopez-Gatell explains.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, commented on Tuesday that “the pandemic is far from over” and warned that the “Omicron variant of Covid-19 causes hospitalizations and deaths. And even less serious cases overwhelm health centers.”
The advent of the Omicron variant, much more contagious than any other form of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus known so far, but apparently causing less severe symptoms in vaccinated people, has started the debate over whether the pandemic, which was declared in early 2020, will be endemic. A debate that implies that it will be less dangerous.
“We will not get rid of the virus this year,” the specialist warned. “We must never eradicate the virus. Viruses that cause pandemics are usually part of the ecosystem,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Advances in vaccination against Covid-19 in Mexico
With the cut-off of Monday, January 17, the federal government reported that 325,860 vaccines have been applied against Covid-19, for which a total of 156,419,272 doses have been provided nationwide since the vaccination plan began in December 2020.
According to the Ministry of Health, 82 million 952 806 people have already been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the country, of which 75 million 809 119 have the complete vaccination schedule of one or two doses, depending on the type of biological administration.
This Tuesday, the Mexican city government began implementing the booster dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 for people aged 50 to 59 in its 16 municipalities.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx