Map of the coronavirus in Mexico on March 14: more than 194,000 dead and Querétaro is the only state at risk of turning red

On the last day, Mexico added 639 new deaths linked to complications from COVID-19, the cumulative death toll has therefore risen to 194,490, the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday.

Likewise, the federal agency announced that with 6,103 new confirmed cases In the past 24 hours, the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic has risen to 2,163,875.

During the press conference to report on the progress of the virus in the country, Christian Arturo Zaragoza Jiménez, director of epidemiological information, stressed that the curve of estimated cases showed a decrease in 11% compared to the previous week.

Also exists 1,701,216 people who have recovered and been granted medical leave after treating symptoms. In addition to 609 874 cases in which both men and women have received the full SARS-CoV-2 vaccination schedule in the country.

On the seventh day of the eighth epidemiological week, 46,870 people (2%) who showed symptoms Last 14 daysTherefore, if they do not comply with all health measures, they could potentially contribute to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus among the rest of the population.

In this sense, when consulting the technical document on the website of the federal agency, it is shown that the entities with the highest number of active cases of SARS-CoV-2 in descending order are: Mexico City, State of Mexico, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Puebla, Nuevo León, Tabasco, Jalisco and MorelosAll of them, entities with more than 1,000 active cases, which together account for 74% of active cases in the country.

On the other hand, they are Chiapas and Campeche, which concentrate the fewest active cases, since they barely reach 129 and 83 infections of this type, respectively.

This is reflected in the colors of the new epidemiological traffic light that will govern the 15 al March 28, or not a state is in red; in yellow There will be 21 entities: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sinaloa, Durango, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Michoacán, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Quintana Roo stay; and Guanajuato remain San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León are added.

In green, there will be three entities: it is added Sonora and Chiapas and Campeche remain; and finally, in Orange Eight entities will remain: Mexico City, State of Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Querétaro, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Yucatán.

However, on Friday it was pointed out that orange states, Queretaro is the only one who, for the moment, is likely to go back to the fire red in the coming weeks if the sanitary measures are not respected.

Regarding the occupation of hospitals, Zaragoza Jiménez indicated that 25% of general beds throughout the country are occupied. In this sense, of the 32,274 beds without assisted ventilation, 7,982 are used and 24,292 are available.

Here, no entity was found with hospitalization levels above 50%, but six states reported occupancy between 30% and 49%, 26 declared an occupancy of less than 30%.

On the other hand, in beds equipped with ventilatory assistance, that is to say for the care of patients in intensive therapy, it was announced that the national occupancy is 28%. Of the 11,404 ventilated beds, 3,221 are busy and 8,183 are available.

In this type of bed, the Mexico City maintains its level of hospitalization at 51%; below are six states with levels ranging from 30% to 49%, while 25 use less than 30% of their beds for the care of patients requiring mechanical ventilation.

Regarding vaccination, the doctor José Luis Alomía Zegarra, Director General of Epidemiology, reported that today they were placed 115,994 doses nationwide. According to the official, although the figure is lower than that reported the previous days, it is a good number of injections given on a Saturday, where there is less activity.

Thus, since December 24, 2020, the date on which the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was applied, a cumulative number of 4,214,494 doses applied: 3,759,272 adults over 60 received the first dose of vaccination, but 827,885 health workers are waiting to complete the immunization schedule.

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