Coronavirus in Mexico on February 14: 436 new deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours

This Sunday, February 14, they registered 174,207 cumulative COVID-19 deaths and 1,992,794 total coronavirus cases in Mexico. However, in the last 24 hours, 436 deaths and 4,099 infections have been added to the national statistics.

Ricardo Cortés Alcala, Director of Health Promotion, said 64,477 (3%) patients experienced symptoms in the past 14 days, which represents people who may be involved in the transmission of the virus.

From the fourth to the fifth week of 2021, there was a decrease in 26% in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) nationally, representing 2,187,511 until Sunday. Likewise, 1,548,174 people have recovered from the disease.

“It’s a decrease in the epidemic curve that gives us an idea of ​​the gradual decrease in the speed of infections, of the number of people who need assistance because of this SARS-CoV-2 virus”, a underlined the manager.

On top of that, he pointed out that the number of estimated active infections has already been exceeded by the number of people who have received the full coronavirus vaccination schedule (86,198).

Regarding people hospitalized due to COVID-19 disease, Cortés Alcalá reported that this week there was a decrease of 2% compared to the day before, signaling a national occupation of 41 percent.

According to the Serious Acute Respiratory Infections Network (SARI), there are 20,256 general beds available Yes 14 214 busy. With fan, a 6570 patients can access before the 4,567 that are saturated.

The entity with the highest occupancy rate of general hospital beds and ventilators is Mexico City, with saturation of 72 and 67%, respectively.

To treat patients in critical situations due to COVID-19, Tlaxcala has an availability of 40%, the State of Mexico with 44%, Morelos with 47% and Oaxaca with 48%.

With the arrival of a batch of 870,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, the government of Mexico will begin vaccinating the elderly. The day will begin this Monday at 8 am in 333 municipalities of the country.

It is planned, in accordance with the federal administration’s plan, create 1,081 vaccination centers nationwide.

It should be noted that the vaccination brigades in this sector will be made up of a well-being promoter, a promoter of the “The school is ours” program, two servants of the nation, three elements responsible for vaccination, two volunteers and four elements of Sedena, Semar and the National Guard.

In addition to this, it has been reported that 33 people presented with serious complications from the application of the COVID-19 vaccine in the country. In addition, the official detailed that about 6,635 people did not show a reaction until after receiving the antigen.

Regarding patients with severe complications (around 1%), he points out that the average age was 36 years, they manifested mainly in women and only two are hospitalized.

By state, Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Quintana Roo, Veracruz and Zacatecas are not registered Events allegedly attributable to vaccination (ESAVIs), while Baja California Sur (1), Chihuahua (2), Mexico (6), Coahuila (4), State of Mexico (5), Guanajuato (2), Hidalgo (1), Jalisco (2), Michoacán (1), Oaxaca (2), Querétaro (1), San Luis Potosí (1), Tabasco (1), Tamaulipas (1), Yucatán (1) and Sonora an ESAVI.

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