Coronavirus in Mexico as of February 26: 782 deaths have been added

Ricardo Cortés Alcalá, Director General of Health Promotion, indicated that February 26 already add 184,474 deaths confirmed and 2,076,882 infections accumulated in Mexico by the new coronavirus (COVID-19). In other words, In the last 24 hours, 782 deaths and 7,512 infections have been recorded.

From the National Palace, it was pointed out that Mexico City and the State of Mexico are the entities with the greatest number of active cases Estimates (with the start date of the last 14 days by the positivity index, by entity and epidemiological week). On a national level 51,983 such infections are calculated.

In addition, there are more than 2000 suspicious deaths that could add up to the total in the next few hours. They also counted the patients 1625328 recovered and, on the other hand, are recorded 562,311 people with a complete immunization schedule (application of two doses of antigen).

According to the official, until this Friday there is a 31% of bed occupancy nationwide (both general care and ventilator).

Regarding the beds of general hospitalization, He explained that there are 30% occupied spaces in the country. The two states that have between 69% and 50% occupancy are:

– Mexico City (56%)

– Puebla (52%)

Currently, no entity has more than 70% occupancy and 30 states report less than 50% occupancy. That is to say, Of the 32,038 beds in total, 22,327 are available and 9,711 are inhabited.

In the case of beds with mechanical ventilation equipment, noted that only Mexico City has an occupancy rate between 69% and 50%.

Likewise, there are 31 entities with less than 50% of the spaces used and none with more than 70% occupancy. In other words, of the 11,538 beds in total, there are 7,679 beds available and 3,869 beds occupied. It should be noted that for six weeks, the estimated and active cases of COVID-19 show a sustained decrease.

Vaccine advance

The official reported that until February 26, 2,271,031 vaccines have been administered to date. Of this total, 735,989 were first doses for health workers. Additionally, 562,311 are second doses, which means they completed 76% of such vaccines.

Cortés Alcalá explained that this Friday, February 26, 127,922 doses of the antigen against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were applied.

He reported that 100% of the first doses of educational staff in Campeche have been applied. Likewise, 955,269 were injected antigens for the elderlyHowever, none have the full immunization schedule.

On another side, 1716 (0.08%) 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.

According to the manager this Saturday February 27 800,000 doses of SinoVac will arrive in Mexico and Tuesday March 2 852150 antigens will arrive from Pfizer-BioNTech, for which he urged citizens to be patient, as there will be enough vaccines to cover the population.

Epidemiological alert traffic light

The director general of health promotion, stressed that in the next epidemiological fire which will be valid from Monday March 1 to March 14, there will be no entity in red, 10 in orange, there will be 20. in yellow two will be green.

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