Coronavirus in Mexico: 198,239 people died from COVID-19 as of March 22

Until Monday, March 22, the Ministry of Health (SSa) reported 198,239 cumulative COVID-19 deaths. However, in the last 24 hours, 203 deaths national statistics.

Jose Luis Alomía, national director of epidemiology, reported that there were 31,839 (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 29% decrease in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) nationwide, i.e. 2,391,367 until Monday. Likewise, 1,740,254 people have recovered from the disease.

“Week 10 opens with still very good news, for the purposes of epidemic behavior at the national level, as it adds a new week and, therefore, nine continuous weeks of a declining trend in COVID- behavior. 19. In fact, if you can notice it, the speed at which it is going down is again taking significant percentages, ”the official said.

“Compared to the previous weeks where we saw that it had started to decrease and we started to want to form an image closer to the plateau, well, the last week plotted gives us again a significant decrease”, a- he added.

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 24,588 general beds available Yes 6 227 busy. While with a fan there is an availability of 7994 that patients can access before the 2,643 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.

Vaccination against COVID-19 in Mexico

According to the daily report of the Ministry of Health, on March 22, the antigen was injected into 118,007 people, thus accumulating 5,781,359 doses applied since December 24, 2020. In addition, the number of vaccines lost amounts to a total of 3,625 (0.06%).

851,833 were applied to primary care staff for patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. first doses. Of this total, 597,120 (70%) people benefited from the full program.

On the other hand, government data indicates that 4,177,600 elderly people were vaccinated against the disease, of this total, 119,914 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, 12417 (0.2%) Events presumed to be associated with vaccination or immunization were reported. Of this total, 11,794 correspond to the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech, 422 to the antigen of AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, 96 to Sputnik and 105 to Sinovac.

Among the cases enumerated, only 1% (104 patients) presented serious complications related to the application of the antigen. In addition, it was detailed that at present, only 22 people are hospitalized.

9,100,720 doses of the vaccine have 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 Sputnik V, 3 million at SinoVac and 940,470 at CansinoBio, the latter were released in the afternoon after being packed in Querétaro.

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