Mexico surpasses 180,000 cumulative deaths from COVID-19

This Sunday, February 21, they registered 180 107 cumulative deaths from COVID-19. However, in the last 24 hours there has been 310 dead national statistics.

Gabriela Nucamendi Cervantes, director of epidemiological surveillance of noncommunicable diseases, reported that it is estimated that 53,409 (2%) patients experienced symptoms in the past 14 days, which represents people who may be involved in the transmission of the virus.

From week 5 to week 6 of 2021, there was 26% decrease in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) nationwide, i.e. 2,236,606 until Sunday. Likewise, 1,595,320 people have recovered from the disease.

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 regimen (453,055).

Regarding people hospitalized due to COVID-19 disease, Nucamendi Cervantes announced that the national occupation was 34 percent.

“Fortunately, as you can see, this curve is going down. If you approach the graph and look at the latest dates, we can identify a marked decrease in the number of patients who have been hospitalized and who were on ventilation, which is favorable because it means that the majority of patients with COVID-19 are not are not serious patients, ”said the official.

According to the Serious Acute Respiratory Infections Network (SARI), there are 21127 general beds available Yes 10 321 busy. With fan, a 7, 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 60 and 62%, respectively.

To care for critically ill patients due to COVID-19, the remaining 31 states have more than 50% availability.

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