Coronavirus in Mexico on May 1: 261 deaths in last 24 hours

Ricardo Cortés Alcala, Director General of Health Promotion, said that on May 1, there was 217,168 deaths confirmed in Mexico due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In other words, in the past 24 hours, there have been 261 deaths.

From the National Palace, he pointed out that Mexico City and the State of Mexico are the entities with the greatest number of active cases Estimates (with a start date of the last 14 days by the positivity index, by entity and epidemiological week). On a national level 24,897 such infections are calculated.

In addition, there are hundreds of suspicious deaths that could add up to the total in the next few hours. They also counted the patients 1,867,191 recovered and, on the other hand, they are recorded 7,440,439 people with a complete immunization schedule.

According to the official, until this Friday there is a -80% reduction in bed occupancy rate across the country (general care and ventilator) since the last peak of cases. Regarding the beds of general hospitalization, He explained that there are 12% of occupied spaces in the country. No state has between 30% and 49% occupancy.

Likewise, no entity has more than 50% occupancy, since all 32 states report less than 30% occupancy. That is to say, of the 30,361 beds in total, 26,715 are available and 3,646 are inhabited.

In the case of beds with mechanical ventilation equipment, used for critically ill COVID-19 patients, noted that there is a national occupation of the 16% (with a downward trend) and that only two entities (Chihuahua and Tabasco) have between 30 and 49% occupancy.

Likewise, there are 30 entities with less than 30% occupancy. In other words, of the 10,552 beds in total, there are 8,871 beds available and 1,681 beds occupied. It should be noted that For several weeks, estimated and active COVID-19 cases show a sustained decrease.

Until Saturday, May 1, 361,199 doses of the antigen against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been applied.

In sum, 18,080,005 vaccines have been administered to date. Of this total, 12,477,933 were first doses for health workers, the elderly and teachers. In addition, 831,021 doses were administered to health workers.

He reported that 977 of the first and 808,028 of the second doses of immunization were applied to educational staff. They also injected 10,674,182 antigens for the elderly; of these, 5,801,390 have the complete immunization schedule.

23,678 (0.1%) were lost doses that reached Mexico. These losses are also taken into account by the vaccination schedule, because before the pandemic this phenomenon was recorded due to complications related to their transfer.

On the other hand, it has been recorded that 17,122 people had reactions (ESAVI) to the vaccine applied to them, however, only 288 were serious. Of these, 14,221 are related to Pfizer-BioNTech, 1,556 to AstraZeneca, 713 to SinoVac, 268 to Sputnik V, 351 to CanSino, 9 are unknown and 4 occurred overseas. According to the agency, there are still 80 people hospitalized because of the response they received.

It should be remembered that last Friday, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris), released a new batch of 502,630 doses of CanSino vaccine which is packaged in the Mexican drugmex laboratory plant, located in the state of Querétaro.

On the other hand, in the Mexico City will begin with the vaccination of people aged 50 to 59 in four municipalities.

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