Coronavirus in Mexico on February 20: 832 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours

This Saturday afternoon February 20, 2021 of the National Palace, the health authorities reported the existence of 832 new deaths caused by COVID-19 disease in the past 24 hours. With this, a total of 179,797 deaths from the start of the health emergency.

However, there is also 1,590,696 people who have recovered and got medical discharge after studying the symptoms. In addition to 445,418 cases in which both men and women received the full immunization schedule against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the country.

According to the data of the written technical report, in the past 24 hours, there has been a record 7,785 new cases, with a total of 2,038,276 cumulative confirmed cases since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, on the seventh day of the seventh epidemiological week, the existence of 2,233,973 estimated cases. On another side, 56,533 people (3%) had symptoms in the last 14 days, Therefore, they are considered active cases and may contribute to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus among the rest of the population.

Regarding hospital saturation, the doctor Christian Arturo Zaragoza Jimenez, Director of Epidemiological Information, indicated that 35% of general beds in the country are occupied and the number is a point below the number recorded the day before. In this direction, Of the 32,185 beds without assisted breathing, 11,240 are in service and 20,945 are available.

In addition, only three states reported over 70% general bed occupancyi.e. Mexico City, State of Mexico and Puebla, located in the center of the country. Meanwhile, three states reported occupancy between 50% and 69%, while 29 reported less than 50% occupancy. Morelos joined the entities with less than half of their beds used with 49%.

On the other hand, in beds with ventilation support, that is, for the care of patients in intensive therapy, it has been announced that national occupancy is 38%. In reality, Of the 11,473 ventilation beds in Mexico, 4,343 are occupied and 7,130 are available.

Too, only Mexico City reported an occupation ranging from 69 to 50 percent. In this way, the State of Mexico and Nuevo León, which accompanied the capital until yesterday, joined the 31 which entities have less than 50% occupancy of beds equipped with a fan.

Regarding vaccination, Dr José Luis Alomía Zegarra, Director General of Epidemiology, said that today 55,742 doses have been placed across the country. It should be noted that in this phase of vaccination, the members of the second priority group are also taken into account, that is to say adults over 60 years old.

Thus, since December 24, 2020, the date on which the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was applied, a cumulative of 1,656,304 applied doses is recorded. In addition, since February 15, the injection of the one created by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has also started.

At the national level, the progress of the application of the vaccines received during the last dispatch is 63%. Of the 32 states, six have already injected more than 90% of their available doses. With this they placed 545,261 injections of the vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca.

About complete immunization schedules, only health workers were able to comply with the characteristic. Of the total number of people vaccinated, 67% have already had both injections, against 33% while waiting for the end of the vaccination.

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