Coronavirus in Mexico: 198,036 people died from COVID-19 as of March 21

Until Sunday March 21, the Ministry of Health reported 198,036 cumulative deaths from COVID-19. However, in the last 24 hours 608 deaths national statistics. Gabriela N

Ricardo Cortés Alcalá, director of health promotion, indicated that there were 35,515 (1%) active infections, which represents people who have had symptoms in the previous 14 days.

From week 9 to 10 of 2021, there was a 30% decrease in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) nationwide, i.e. 2,390,095 until this Sunday. Likewise, 1,736,159 people have recovered from the disease.

Regarding people hospitalized due to SARS-CoV-2, the specialist announced that the occupation at the national level was 21 percent. According to the Serious Acute Respiratory Infections Network (SARI), there are 24,704 general beds available Yes 6,343 busy. While with a fan there is an availability of 7932 which patients can access before the 2,554 that are saturated.

Currently, there is no entity in the Republic with more than 50% occupancy of general care beds or to care for patients in critical situation due to COVID-19.

“We are already with figures lower than the hospital occupations that we observed at the end of the first hour and at the start of the second wave,” explained the official.

Vaccination against COVID-19 in Mexico

According to the daily report of the Ministry of Health, on March 21, the antigen was injected into 109,387 people, which has accumulated 5,612,291 doses applied since December 24, 2020. In addition, the number of vaccines lost amounts to a total of 3,493 (0.06%).

851,117 were applied to primary care staff for patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. first doses. Of this total, 596,721 (70%) people benefited from the full program.

On the other hand, government data indicates that 4,026,943 elderly people were vaccinated against the disease, of this total, 102,618 people received the second dose. In Campeche, the drug was injected to 17,463 health workers, of which 17,429 (99%) were inoculated a second time.

Based on SSa figures, 12,308 (0.2%) events presumed to be associated with vaccination or immunization were reported. Of this total, 11,696 correspond to the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech, 419 to the antigen of AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, 93 to Sputnik and 98 to Sinovac.

Among the cases enumerated, only 1% (97 patients) presented serious complications related to the application of the antigen. In addition, it was detailed that at present, only 17 people are hospitalized.

8,160,250 doses of the vaccine arrived in Mexico to prevent infection against SARS-CoV-2, of which 3,890,250 correspond to Pfizer-BioNTech, 870,000 at AstraZeneca, 400,000 at Spoutnik V and 3 million at SinoVac.

“We are all going to be vaccinated, wait your turn, please. It is important, the order will bear great fruit for us, because all of us, by maintaining order, will receive the vaccine that corresponds to us at the time that suits us.

The holidays are approaching, there will be an Easter holiday, girls and boys will suspend virtual activities, but please: may this wave not cause a third wave of infections. And if there is a third wave, it’s less than the one we just went through, ”said Cortés Alcalá.

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