Mexico doubled the number of infections due to covid – 19 in less than a week , since last Wednesday it registered 5, 290 cases and on Friday the figure was 10, 037, while this Sunday approached the 11 thousand.
The Ministry of Health of Mexico reported that the country registered 116 new deaths from covid- 19 to get to 299, 544 total deaths and 11, 864 new infections for a total of 3, 990, 587 .
It should be remembered that the authorities did not publish the death and infection figures for January 1.
With these accumulated figures of deaths and infections, Mexico remains the fifth country with the most deaths from covid – 19 , behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia and is the sixteenth in number of confirmed infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
Health authorities acknowledge that the pandemic would be around 448, 000 deceased in the country and they estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 4, 216, 468 infections.
Of the number of cases, there are 48, 801 active, who have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and represent 1.2% of the total; In addition, since the beginning of the pandemic, 3 have recovered, 312,333 persons .
The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 14% and the use of intensive care beds in a 12%.
Mexico detected the first person infected with the Omicron variant on December 3 and since then they have added more than 40 cases confirmed by the governments of Mexico City, State of Mexico, Nuevo León and Sinaloa.
But according to data from the Gisaid platform (by its name in English (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data) there is already 254 Cases of omicron infections.
Last Tuesday, the Mexican Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion and in charge of to manage the pandemic in Mexico, Hugo López-Gatell, assured that in the country “the participation of the Ómicron variant is frequently overestimated.”
Unlike other countries, Mexico spent Christmas holidays without restrictions due to the pandemic; Regarding deaths, Mexico City, the focus of the pandemic, accumulates close to 18% of all deaths nationwide.
Vaccination plan in Mexico
The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program they have applied 148, 94 million doses, when adding 4, 753 during the last day.
The Government of Mexico states that It is the seventh country that has applied the most doses in absolute numbers.
Of its 126 millions of inhabitants, 81. 91 millions in the country have at least one d osis of the vaccine, that is, the 88% of total population; of that total, the 89% (72, 84 million) have completed their vaccination schedule.
Since the end of December 2020 have arrived in Mexico 198 million doses vaccines from the American companies Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, the British AstraZeneca, the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CanSino or Sinovac.