Coronavirus in Mexico as of May 17: 56 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours

For this Monday, May 17, the health authorities of the country shared that for week 18 the figures of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease stay down, they’ve been saved 2,382,745 cases in total And in the In the last 24 hours, 822 new cases have been registered. The number of confirmed deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic is 220,489 This means that in the last 24 hours have been added 56 new deaths national statistics.

According to the director of epidemiology of the Ministry of Health of Mexico, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, pointed out that these figures represent a favorable progress in the management of the epidemic since the start of the health contingency in the Mexican Republic.

“Yesterday we opened a week again, week 18 with a further decline which continues with 19% and obviously this gives us new hope that the week can end with a decline,” explained the manager.

On the other hand, the number of An estimated 16,506 cases have triggered symptoms in the past 14 days.. On the other hand the number of people cured of the disease is 1,903,494.

Luis Alomy He also spoke of the number of complete immunization schedules until the cutoff of May 17, which is 10,652,500 doses applied this represents 8% of the total population of the country for the groups which receive the antigen.

Concerning the maximum national peak recorded in the hospital profession to care for patients with COVID-19 was reduced by 86%, this compared to last maximum peak in Mexico. During this time the saturation in the general beds was 10% and with a fan at 14% both remain unchanged extract from the report of Sunday, May 16. 90% of general care hospitals to treat people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are available

“We are maintaining the decline and the downward trend in daily hospitalizations. What we are seeing is in line with the burden of disease, that is, with the total number of estimated cases that include mild and moderate Covid, ”said Dr Alomía.

National COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Mexico

the Under-Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, has updated the latest figures for doses administered, for the 9:00 p.m. cut-off of the daily vaccination advance from May 16 they were administered 133,422 injections. Therefore, the new figure of cumulative doses since december 2020 is 23.301.884.

On the other hand, López-Gatell pointed out that only 36,145 vaccine supplies were lost, which represents 0.1 percent. So far, the population that already possesses the antigen is 15,544,106 people, or 12% of the country’s total population and 19% of the legal age population.

According to data shared by the Ministry of Health, the figures for sectors already vaccinated are as follows: 1,887,336 adults aged 50 to 59; 10,715,748 people aged 60 and over; 1,843,832 education personnel Yes 1,097,190 workers in the health sector.

The specialist also said that on the day of vaccination for pregnant women, invited future mothers to come and consult the information on the portal mivacuna.salud.gob.mx About the registration process to receive the drug and take care of your health, the health official explained that some doses have already been applied and in the next few days they will release exact figures how many pregnant women already have the drug.

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