The Health Secretary reported what Mexico adds since the beginning of the pandemic a total of five million 956 thousand 732 cases and 325 thousand 576 deaths from COVID-19.
In the last 24 hours, the country registered 16,214 new infections and 23 deaths from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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The Daily Technical Report reports that in epidemiological week number 24, which runs from June 12 to 18, it closes with a daily average of 8,680 infections and seven deaths.
So far, the availability of general and mechanical ventilator beds stands at 95 and 98 percent, respectively.
Mexico will start this June 27 with the anticovid vaccination of children whose ages range from five to 11 years old, announced Hugo López-Gatell, federal undersecretary of Health and responsible for managing the pandemic in the country.
“As of Monday, June 27, we will start vaccination once morest COVID-19 for girls and boys from 5 to 11 years of age,” said the Undersecretary for Health Protection and Prevention on his official Twitter account.
López-Gatell specified that this phase will last approximately three months, and he also recommended that those who have coronavirus wait 15 days before applying the vaccine.
This week, two million 004 thousand packaged vaccines once morest COVID-19 were received from pediatric Pfizer-BioNTech; the first shipment arrived on June 23 with 804 thousand doses and on June 24 the second shipment arrived with one million 200 thousand doses. Mexico contracted eight million with this pharmaceutical company for this population segment.
The Ministry of Health called on fathers, mothers and caregivers of girls and boys between the ages of five and 11, to keep an eye on the call issued by the state health authorities to attend vaccination points in order to immunize children. who are in this age range, with the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital
