CDMX.- Mexico reported this Wednesday 158 new deaths and 4,251 infections from covid-19which totals 5,640,305 cases and accumulates 322,277 deaths in total, reported the Ministry of Health.
With these data, Mexico is the twentieth country in the world in number of confirmed infections and is the fifth with the most deaths from this cause, behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
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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The health authorities recognize that, based on death certificates, the country may be close to 460,000 deaths and they estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 5,918,220 Covid-19 infections.
Of the confirmed infectionsthere are 11,222 active cases, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and represent 0.2% of the total.
In addition, since the start of the pandemic, 4,937,642 people have recovered.
The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 8% and intensive care at 5%, with a downward trend.
On Tuesday, Hugo López Gatell, Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, assured that the covid-19 pandemic in Mexico is at the lowest levels since the start of the health emergency two years ago.
“All the indicators are at the lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic,” the official said during the morning press conference from the National Palace.
The undersecretary reported that there are already eight consecutive weeks of reduction in the covid-19 pandemic.
Vaccination
The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program more than 189.08 million doses have been administered, adding 197,446 during the last day.
The government of Mexico states that it is the tenth country that has applied the most doses in absolute numbers.
Of the 126 million inhabitants, 85.53 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, 79.56 million people have completed their vaccination schedule.
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Since the end of December 2020, 224.35 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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