He committed suicide after testing positive for the rapid coronavirus test, but in the end he was not infected | the Chronicle

A tragic episode took place in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. A man tested positive for a rapid coronavirus test and decided to kill himself, but a PCR then determined he was not a carrier of the disease.

Mario Alberto “M”, 29, entered the General Hospital of Zone 7 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) on Saturday, December 26, with all symptoms of Covid-19. The boy hanged himself in one of the bathrooms at the medical center.

This affair generated a great shock in Mexican public opinion. “It was fortuitous, unexpected”, insured Leopoldo Santillán Arreygue, hospital delegate. The patient, a resident of the municipality of Frontera, arrived with 90% saturation (oxygenation) and a rapid test which had been positive. He was admitted to a special area and they did a second test, PCR, which ultimately turned out negative..

A few hours before getting the result, the patient got out of bed and hanged himself in a bathroom. Santillán Arreygue ruled out hospital health staff being held responsible.

“We cannot act because it was not homicide. The patient was able to physically go to the bathroom and protect himself ”He told the local press.

“What we’re going to do is have everyone who enters the COVID zone receive support in one way or another. We will attend it from the first level, an effort will be made to detect, it depends a lot on the collaboration of the patient and the expression of his feelings ”, peaked.

Coronavirus figures in Mexico

The Mexican government reported on the first day of the year 11,091 new cases of coronavirus and 700 deaths from the coronavirus, reaching a total of 1,437,185 infections and 126,507 deaths. These figures imply an incidence rate of 1,124.6 cumulative infections per 100,000 inhabitants, the Ministry of Health (SSa) said on Friday in its daily technical statement.

With this panorama, the Latin American country begins 2021 as the fourth country in the world with the most deaths from the pandemic, just below the United States, Brazil and India, according to the tally of the ‘Johns Hopkins University. In addition, according to this same institution, Mexico is the thirteenth country in the world in terms of the number of infections.