Coronavirus in Mexico on February 10: 1,328 deaths have been added

José Luis Alomía Zegarra, director general of epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, reported that this February 10, the day they already add 169,760 deaths confirmed in Mexico due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In other words, in the past 24 hours there have been 1,328 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 start date of the last 14 days by the positivity index, by entity and epidemiological week). On a national level 67,536 infections of this type 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 1,519,527 recovered. On the other hand, they are recorded 84,592 people with a complete immunization schedule (application of two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech antigen).

Hospital profession

According to the manager, until Wednesday there is a 47% of bed occupancy nationwide (both general care and ventilator).

Regarding the beds of general hospitalization, He explained that there are 48% of occupied spaces in the country. The three states with more than 70% occupancy are:

– Mexico City (77%)

– Morelos (73%)

– State of Mexico (73%)

Likewise, there are six states with between 69% and 50% occupancy and 24 with less than 50% occupancy. In other words, of the 35,205 beds in total, 18,294 are available and 16,911 are inhabited.

In the case of beds with ventilation equipmentHe pointed out that only Mexico City has an occupation greater than 70 percent.

Likewise, there are 26 entities with less than 50% occupancy and five register between 69% and 50% of inhabited beds with ventilators, which have an increasing trend, they are:

– State of Mexico (60%)

– Aguascalientes (56%)

– Nuevo Leon (55%)

– Colima (51%)

– Oaxaca (50%)

Vaccine advance

For his part, the Under Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell said 220 doses had been recorded in February. He pointed out that the low number was due to a failure in reporting, so tomorrow he will report again how many have been applied.

In sum, 724,707 vaccines have been injected to dateOf these, 622,658 were first doses for health workers and 84,592 were second doses.

He noted that 31 states have completed application of the 100% dose, i.e. there has been an overall progress of 94% during this first stage.

On the other hand, 766,350 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech were received, of which 999 (0.13%) were lost and there are 6,940 reserve doses at the Inca. However, 100% of the first five shipments of the antigen have been applied and as of the last arrival on January 19, 78% were occupied.

It must be remembered that a new shipment of 491 thousand 400 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will arrive on February 15, with which it corresponds to the reactivation of the regular shipments that the Belgian pharmaceutical company will carry out each week.

With the arrival of the said batch, the schedule established with Pfizer is reactivated, once the expansion works of its factory in Belgium are completed, which will allow it to maintain the supply in the countries with which it has ongoing contracts such as Mexico.

Among the staff in the health sector and educational institutions such as UNAM, there are more than 25 thousand volunteers who have registered to be part of the Roadrunner Brigades that support the operational strategy of the national vaccination policy against the Sars-CoV-2 virus, for the prevention of COVID-19 in Mexico.

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