Mexico registered 60,552 this Wednesday new infections of Covid-19, a new historical number of daily cases reported by the Ministry of Health since the coronavirus pandemic began in February 2020.
This is the second record recorded in the week, after the federal agency reported 49,343 newly confirmed cases yesterday. The accumulated number of infections nationwide since the advent of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 amounts to 4 million 495 310 cases.
The daily technical report on the progress of the epidemic in the country also highlights that 323 new deaths have been reported, for a total of 302 112. deaths due to Covid-19.
According to authorities, 3 million 551,283 people recovered after suffering from Covid-19 in the country.
The federal agency has estimated that 325,234 active cases are estimated, that is, people who have been showing symptoms of the coronavirus for the past 14 days. The rapid increase in active cases was attributed to the advent of Omicron, characterized by being more contagious than the other variants of Covid-19 detected.
The states with the highest rate of active cases per 100,000 inhabitants are:
- Baja California Sur
- Mexico City
- Tabasco
- Colima
- San Luis Potosi
- Nayarit
- Zacatecas
- Koahuila
- Queretaro
- Yucatan
In terms of hospital capacity, it maintains a slight increase, but constant in occupancy of beds.
General beds for the care of patients with Covid-19 That is 37%, three percentage points more than reported yesterday, while beds with a fan for severe cases register 20% occupancy.
Vaccination against Covid-19 advances
As of Tuesday, January 18, the Ministry of Health had applied 726,643 vaccines against Covid-19, for a total of 157,145,915 doses delivered across the country.
The federal government has stressed that 83 million 2,950 people have been vaccinated against the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, of which 76 million 6 592 people have complete schemes.
What are the symptoms of the Omicron variant of Covid-19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that there is still no definite evidence that the symptoms of the Omicron variant differ from those of other variants. However, several studies around the world find small differences in symptoms that occur in patients with the new variant, for example, it is more contagious in the nasal upper airway, has fewer diseases in the lower airway (pulmonary) and has a higher risk of re-infection , even in patients who have already had the infection or a complete vaccination schedule.
A study published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that the most common symptom of people infected with the Omicron variant is a dry cough, affecting up to 89% of people; others are fatigue (65%), nasal congestion (59%), fever (38%), nausea and vomiting (22%), in addition to headaches, body aches and sore throats, all of which occur mildly and from two to five days. These are some differences to the inconvenience caused by the original virus.
(With information from Nelly Toche).
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx