Coronavirus in Mexico on April 9: 874 deaths in one day

The Director General of Epidemiology, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, reported that on April 9, they were already adding 207,020 deaths confirmed in Mexico due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In other words, In the past 24 hours, there have been 874 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 28,179 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 1,804,913 recovered and, on the other hand, they are recorded 1,855,048 people with a complete vaccination schedule.

According to the official, until this Friday there is a 17% of bed occupancy nationwide (both general care and ventilator).

Regarding the beds of general hospitalization, He explained that there are 17% of occupied spaces in the country. A single state has between 30% and 49% occupancy:

– Puebla

Currently, no entity has more than 50% occupancy and 31 states report less than 30% occupancy. That is to say, Of the 31,294 beds in total, 26,008 are available and 5,286 are inhabited.

In the case of beds with mechanical ventilation equipment, stressed that there is a national occupation of 21% (with a downward trend) and that only three entities have between 30 and 49% occupancy.

Likewise, there are 29 entities with less than 30% occupancy. In other words, of the 11,121 beds in total, there are 8,799 beds available and 2,332 beds occupied. It should be noted that For several weeks, estimated and active COVID-19 cases show a sustained decrease.

For his part, Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary for prevention and health promotion, reported that this Tuesday, April 9, 185,651 doses of the antigen against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were applied.

In sum, 10,984,869 vaccines have been administered to date. Of this total, 155,520 were first doses for health workers. In addition, 754,128 seconds doses to the same sector.

He reported that 5,307 first doses and 17,627 second doses of vaccination had been applied to educational staff. They also injected 7,410,304 antigens for the elderly; of these, 1,083,293 have the full immunization schedule.

On another side, 5869 (0.06%) 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 14,483 people had reactions (ESAVI) to the vaccine applied to them, however, only 150 were serious. Of these, 13,050 are related to Pfizer-BioNTech, 616 to AstraZeneca, 554 to SinoVac, 201 to Sputnik V, 55 to CanSino, 4 are unknown and 3 occurred overseas. According to the agency, there are still 42 people hospitalized because of the response they received.

Remember that co-morbidities do not increase the risk of having a Esau. However, the Pfizer vaccine is contraindicated in people who have had a severe allergy.

Alomía Zegarra pointed out that of the next April 12 and until 26, the map of Mexico will have eight entities in green, 19 in yellow, five in orange and none in red.

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