CDMX.- Mexico reported this Monday 12 new deaths and 1,018 infections by covid-19which totals 5,607,845 cases and accumulates 321,115 deaths in total, reported the Ministry of Health.
The number of deaths reported this day is the lowest of the fourth waveafter that of March 7, which was 35. In Mexico In the reports for Sunday and Monday, the figures for deaths and infections fall considerably due to the processing of information from the weekend.
On February 10, the country reported 927 deaths, the highest figure during the current fourth wave, driven by the omicron variant since December.
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With these data, Mexico is the sixteenth country in the world in number of confirmed infections and is the fifth with the most deaths for this reason, behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University.
The health authorities recognize that, based on death certificates, the country may be close to 460,000 deaths and estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 5,884,519 infections.
Of the confirmed infections, there are 17,864 active cases, which have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 0.3% of the total.
In addition, since the start of the pandemic, 4,900,680 people have recovered.
The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 9% and intensive care at 7%, with a downward trend.
A week ago, the official in charge of managing the pandemic in the country, Hugo López-Gatell, affirmed that the infections of covid-19 have reached “minimum levels” in Mexican territory after the fourth wave of infections, driven by the variant omicron since December.
On February 28 last, Mexico It has been two years since the first confirmed case of coronavirus, and it did so as the fifth country in the world with the most deaths, a criticized management of the pandemic and an immunization plan that is advancing at a good pace but without considering all age groups.
Vaccination
The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program more than 186.53 million doses have been administered, adding 129,543 during the last day.
The Government of Mexico affirms that it is the tenth country that has applied the most doses in absolute numbers.
Of the 126 million inhabitants, 85.43 million Mexicans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, with which 90% of the population aged 18 and over has received at least one application.
Meanwhile, 79.38 million people have completed their vaccination schedule.
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Since the end of December 2020, 224.34 million doses of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines from the United States have arrived in Mexico; the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino and Sinovac.
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