Culiacán.- This Wednesday, March 2, the Sinaloa Ministry of Health announced that 293 new infections and 3 deaths from Covid-19 were registered in the statewhich continues at the epidemiological yellow traffic light.
The agency reported a historical accumulated of 119 thousand 906 confirmed cases and a total of 9 thousand 650 deaths because of the coronavirus.
Incidence
In addition, it was reported that four new cases were detected from private laboratories, which are counted apart from those registered on the entity’s health services platform.
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The new infections occurred in the municipalities: Culiacán, 142; Ahhome, 75; Guasave, 29; Mazatlan, 27; Salvador Alvarado, 8; Navolato, 3; The Strong, 3; The Rosary, 3; Narrowness, 2; Escuinapa, 1.
Regarding 3 recent deaths, it is a woman from Guasave; a man from Sinaloa de Leyva and a man from El Rosario.
It was also reported that another 413 people were discharged, for which there are already a total of 108,859 patients recovered after testing positive for coronavirus, since the first case was registered.
active cases
The Ministry of Health reported that until this Wednesday there were a total of 1,397 active cases in Sinaloa and this list is headed by Culiacán, with 701; in second place is Ahome, with 287, and in third place is Mazatlán, with 203.
Likewise, they are followed by: Guasave, 109; Salvador Alvarado, 38; The Rosary, 13; The Strong, 12; Navolato, 9; Narrowness, 8; Sinalao de Leyva, 5; Escuinapa, 5; Concord, 3; Mocorito, 2; Choix, 1 and Elota, 1.
The agency reported that there are 2,242 suspected cases in the state, where Culiacán ranks first, with 984; Mazatlán is second, with 715, and Ahome is third, with 284.
Health authorities reported an availability of 96 percent of covid beds in Sinaloa.
Private lab tests
From January 20 to March 1, at the State of Sinaloa, for only two private laboratories in the state, 64,671 diagnostic tests for COVID-19 have been carried out and they are not reported to the SISVER Platform. Of this total of tests carried out, 23,584 are positive. This situation has repercussions when analyzing the information, being a limitation to have clear and convincing evidence of the magnitude of the problem regarding infections by the SARS CoV-2 virus in the Sinaloa population.
The Ministry of Health reported 28,570 new cases these days. If we add the commented omission, the real figure is 52,154.
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However, it is worth mentioning that, by the corresponding authorities in the Ministry of Health, the inherent work is being carried out to regularize this condition; whose objective is that the work carried out by the private laboratories authorized for this purpose must be registered in the official information system, the SISVER, and therefore be reflected daily when the data is analyzed and finally be in a position to publish the magnitude of the problem more accurately.
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