Coronavirus in Mexico on March 15: how many new deaths have been recorded in 24 hours

The latest report from the Ministry of Health (SSa) indicates that there is 194,944 deaths from COVID-19 in Mexico. However, in the last 24 hours, 234 new deaths.

Ruy López Ridaura, director general of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control Programs, said they had been enumerated 37,056 (2%) active infections, which represents people who have had symptoms in the previous 14 days.

From week 8 to 9 of 2021, there was a 7% decrease in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) nationally, including 2361702 until Monday March 15. Likewise, 1,711,931 people have recovered from the disease.

“In practically all the states where we have this behavior, some states have already reached an intermediate plateau, similar to what could be announced at this time, similar to the first wave”, explained the specialist of the National Palace.

Regarding people hospitalized due to SARS-CoV-2, the specialist revealed that the occupation at the national level was 24 percent. According to the Serious Acute Respiratory Infections Network (SARI), there are 24208 general beds available Yes 7 374 busy. While with a fan there is an availability of 7886 which patients can access before the 2,926 which are saturated.

There is currently no entity in the Republic with more than 50% occupancy of general care beds or spaces intended to help patients in critical situation due to coronavirus disease.

We are very close, or already in the same numbers of the valley that we had after the first curve, we are practically in very similar numbers of hospitalizations

Vaccination against COVID-19 in Mexico

According to the daily report of the Ministry of Health, on March 15 the antigen was injected into 52,228 people, thus achieving a cumulative of 4,404,608 applied biological products. In addition, the number of vaccines lost amounts to a total of 2,577 (0.06%).

828,803 were applied to primary care staff for patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. first doses. Of this total, 592,460 (71%) people benefited from the full program.

On the other hand, government data indicates that 2,948,453 elderly people were vaccinated against disease. In Campeche, the biologic was injected into 17,463 health workers, of which 17,429 (99%) received the second dose of the antigen.

Based on SSa figures, 11835 (0.3%) Events presumed to be associated with vaccination or immunization have been reported. Of this total, 11,316 correspond to the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech, 409 to the antigen from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, 70 to Sputnik and 40 to Sinovac.

Among the cases enumerated, only 1% (91 patients) presented serious complications related to the application of the antigen. In addition, it was detailed that at present, only 15 people are hospitalized.

6,492,375 doses of the vaccine have arrived in Mexico to prevent infection against SARS-CoV-2, of which 3,222,375 correspond to Pfizer-BioNTech, 870,000 at AstraZeneca, 400,000 at Spoutnik V and 2 million at SinoVac.

“There are vaccines for everyone, but not all vaccines are there today. This means that a very important municipality is that a well-defined geographical area can be covered and the easiest way is a municipality. Once you arrive in the municipality, you have the estimated number of the population, ”said López Riudaura.

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