Coronavirus in Mexico as of May 3: 1,027 infections and 112 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours

The Ministry of Health (SSa) has announced that until Monday, May 3, they have registered 217,345 deaths caused by coronavirus disease in Mexico. This means that in the last 24 hours they have been added 112 deaths national statistics. They also reported that 1,872,375 recovered of COVID-19 disease.

Currently a record of 2 349 900 total number of cases since the start of the pandemic in Mexico, so in the In the last 24 hours, 1027 new infections have been added, This was reported by Dr. José Luis Alomía Zegarra.

Likewise, the director of epidemiology pointed out that the country started week 18 with a significant decrease with the follow-up of the pandemic in Mexico; 15 consecutive weeks with a declining index, from the beginning to the present day, the maximum occupancy has been reduced to 81% compared to the figures for the highest occurrence of COVID-19 cases.

Regarding the general availability of beds in hospitals, there are still 12% nationally, the 32 states maintain general bed use less than 30% the capacity of health centers. Of 29,152 beds available, only 3426 They are busy.

The figures of beds with fan, who treat critically ill patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, are: out of 10,193 beds available 8614 are inactive and only 1579 are occupied, which represents a national occupation of 15 percent.

Only two states of the republic maintain a occupancy between 30 and 49% of their capacity, which are Chihuahua Yes Tabasco. The remaining states have less than 30% of fan bed use.

COVID-19 vaccination campaign

The Under-Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, updated vaccination figures in the country. From December 2020 until the deadline of May 3, they have been applied 18,471,669 doses and 25,222 were lost due to transfers for final delivery.

Relative to the number of complete regimens in the vaccinated population, it is 12 625, 860 which represents ten% of total of mexican population.

The number of people vaccinated is as follows:

Staff working in the health sector:

– First doses: 182,008

– Full speed: 842990

The elderly:

– Half-modes: 4650168

– Full plan: 6,034,559

Teachers in the education sector:

– First doses: 977

– Full plan: 915158

In relation to the number of Events assumed to be associated with vaccination or immunization, for this monday they registered 17273 cases that represent 0.1% of the doses applied. Only 299 (1.7%) were reported as serious and requiring specialized medical attention.

The public official pointed out that already launched the registry for vaccination of people aged 50 to 59, invited the population to visit the page https://mivacuna.salud.gob.mx/ to complete the information emptying process and find out the vaccination dates in the coming days.

In addition specified that sectors of the population are not “victims of discrimination”, He explained that due to the national strategy and the timing of the drug’s creation, groups susceptible to severe infection were chosen. He asked the citizens for more patience and assured that everyone will be gifted with the antigen.

Finally Hugo lopez-gatell confirmed that various the indices have marked a downward trend the number of infections and people hospitalized in the country. He pointed out that the vaccine is one of them but not the main one:

“This reduction depends on many factors, It is not only the contribution of vaccination, although it is important, but it’s still a small percentage to assume that the vaccine plays an important role in this reduction, but it contributes, ”concluded López-Gatell.

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