CDMX.- Mexico registered this Friday 457 new deaths and 21,449 infections by covid-19, so that it adds 5,387,854 cases, and accumulates 315,055 deaths in total, reported the Ministry of Health. On February 10, the country reported 927 deaths, the highest figure during the fourth wave.
With this data, Mexico is the sixteenth country in the world in number of confirmed infections and 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 5,660,849 infections.
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Of the confirmed infections, there are 82,190 active cases, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for 1.5% of the total.
In addition, since the start of the pandemic, 4,632,641 people have recovered.
The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 28% and that of intensive care at 19%.
Despite the rise in infections in the fourth wave, the Government has defended its management of the health crisis in addition to the fact that it did not apply additional restrictions during the onslaught of the omicron variant.
The person in charge of the pandemic in the country, Hugo López-Gatell, stated last Tuesday that the fourth wave of covid-19 In Mexican territory, there has been three weeks of “sustained and large reduction”, so it is already below the waves of previous infections.
Regarding deaths, City of Mexicothe focus of the pandemic, accumulates about 17.4% of all deaths nationwide.
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This Friday, the Ministry of Health reported that from February 21 to March 6, none of the country’s 32 states will be at a red epidemiological risk traffic light (maximum risk of contagion), or orange (high risk) and 16 will be in yellow (medium risk), including Mexico City, and the other 16 in green (low risk).
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