Coronavirus in Mexico on February 15: 450 new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours

This Monday, February 15, 174,657 were registered cumulative deaths from COVID-19. However, in the past 24 hours, 450 deaths have been added to the national statistics.

José Luis Alomía, national director of epidemiology, indicated that it is estimated that 56,691 (3%) patients experienced symptoms in the past 14 days, which represents people who may be involved in the transmission of the virus.

From week 4 to week 5 of 2021, a 26% decrease in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) at national level, including 2,189,873 until Monday. Likewise, 1,555,923 people have recovered from the disease.

“The decline that we had already observed for three consecutive weeks extends again to a fourth week. Interesting because the reduction between weeks 4 and 5 continues to be significant, i.e. has a fairly relevant magnitude, similar to the one we observed in previous weeks ”, underlined the specialist.

“In fact, when we see where the point of accumulation of cases is at the end of week five and compare with the first climax we had at the end of July of last year, so practically we start the week with a return below this peak“, He added.

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, Alomy Zegarra the occupation at the national level was located 41 percent.

According to the Serious Acute Respiratory Infections Network (SARI), there are 20176 general beds available Yes 13 956 busy. With fan, a 6529 patients can access before the 4,395 that are saturated.

The entity with the highest occupancy rate of general hospital beds and ventilators is Mexico City, with saturation of 71 and 66%, respectively.

To care for patients in critical situations due to COVID-19, Tlaxcala has an availability of 42%, the State of Mexico with 46%, Nuevo León with 50%, Morelos with 52% and Oaxaca with 53%.

Vaccination against COVID-19 in Mexico

After an intense day of vaccination against COVID-19, the The Ministry of Health reported that this Monday, February 15, 23,369 doses were applied. This figure has been added to the cumulative statistics, indicating that 749,682 injections have been given since December 24, 2020.

Regarding vaccination of the elderly (PAM), José Luis Alomía explained that 503 vaccination points have been created in 30 start-up municipalities. Tamaulipas will start the application on February 16 and Nuevo León has decided to postpone it due to sub-zero temperatures.

We must not forget that last Sunday a shipment of 870,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca. During a morning press conference, President López Obrador reported that the said antigen would be used to protect people over 60 from disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

“All seniors in these remote municipalities will be vaccinated, so progress will be made with other municipalities in the 32 states until all seniors are vaccinated – more than 15 million adults over 60 years of age. , We want 15,717,170 adults over 60 to be vaccinated by mid-April, with this an 80% reduction in COVID deaths is guaranteed, ”the Mexican president said.

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