The Health Secretary reported this Tuesday that Mexico has 7 million 165 thousand 257 cases and 330 thousand 699 deaths from COVID-19.
In the last weekthe country registered 19 thousand 848 infections and 107 deaths from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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These numbers are presented in the middle of the sixth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Mexico, which has maintained a slow increase in infections in the last five weeks.
At a press conference, the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López Gatell-Ramírez, explained that the increase in infections is similar to what happens in other parts of the world in the winter season, when respiratory infections increase.
He explained that the international scientific community anticipates that COVID-19 will gradually enter the seasonal phase, that is, without waves of infections in spring and summer, and that it will be one more of the 360 identified respiratory viruses that affect people.
He reported that the death curve shows that the second wave was the most lethal. After the third year it began to decrease and now, in the sixth year, “mortality is frankly low, fortunately”, the result of extensive vaccination throughout the territory.
Likewise, he added, it is foreseeable that in the coming weeks hospitalization for COVID-19 will increase, but not with the severity and mortality that was registered in the first waves. Currently, the occupancy of general beds stands at four percent and with a fan at two percent.
To date, 84 percent of all eligible population groups have at least one dose, as well as 91 percent of those over 18 years of age, 64 percent of adolescents, and 60 percent of girls and boys between 5 and 11 years of age. .
With information from López-Dóriga Digital
