Coronavirus map in Mexico on February 14: CDMX is the only state with 70% hospital occupancy

Federal Ministry of Health registered 9,741 new cases of COVID-19 in Mexico, as well as 1,214 new deaths compared to the day before. With these figures, accumulated infections amounted to 1,988,695 and deaths to 173,771.

During the usual press conference to report on the evolution of the pandemic in the country, the director general of the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV and AIDS, Alethse de la Torre Rosas, noted that the curve of estimated new and active cases showed a decrease ofl 28%, during the fourth epidemiological week of 2021; while the recovery curve also decreased by 3% during the same period.

In addition, he assured that at present there are estimates in the country 67,939 active cases of the disease; that is, patients who have started showing symptoms within the last 14 days (January 31 to February 13, 2021) and who, if they do not comply with all health measures, could potentially contribute to transmission of the virus. This means that the active epidemic in Mexico is 3%.

In this sense, according to the federal technical document, thein Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Querétaro, Morelos, Jalisco, Puebla, Tabasco, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí and Baja California Sur These are the entities with the most active cases and which together represent 81% of active cases in the country.

On the other hand, Chiapas and Campeche These are the entities that concentrate the least amount, accumulating only 131 and 71 active infections.

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The above is reflected in the new colors of the epidemiological signaling light that will come into effect from tomorrow and will remain so until next February 21, where Guerrero and Guanajuato will be red; Campeche, Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Tamaulipas and Tabasco to yellow; and only Chiapas to verde.

In Orange They will be located: Mexico City, State of Mexico, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Baja California Sur, Veracruz, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

However, until yesterday, they had 20,251 presumed deaths COVID-19 which includes those pending by laboratory (n = 4,286) and those in the process of association – clinical – epidemiological opinion (n = 15,965) in SISVER.

In this context, Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Puebla, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Baja California, Sonora and Coahuila They are ranked among the 10 entities that recorded the highest number of deaths and which together represent more than half (64.3%) of all those in the country.

With the numbers above, Mexico ranks thirteenth in the world for number of infections and the third place with the most deaths from the pandemic, behind the United States and Brazil, according to the American University Johns Hopkins.

Regarding hospital occupancy and hospital availability nationwide, the IRAG network reported that there is a 43% occupancy of beds at national (both general care and with a ventilator).

Regarding general hospital beds, he explained that there are 43% of occupied spaces in the country. The only entity that has more than 70% occupancy is the Mexico City (74%).

When it comes to beds with automatic ventilators to treat the most critical patients due to the disease, CDMX is the only condition that has a 70% occupancy; Tlaxcala follows with 57%; State of Mexico and Oaxaca with 55%; and Nuevo León with 51%, but these four entities are down. The rest of the 27 states have an occupation of less than 50%.

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