translated from Spanish: Valle de México has 4,406 hospitalized by COVID; 1,034 are intubated

THE head of government of the CDMX, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported that until this Thursday the hospital occupation in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico (ZMVM) was 4,406 patients with COVID-19, of which 1,034 are intubated and 3,372 uninturbed.
Sheinbaum noted that this information corresponds to the figures provided by the hospitals of IMSS, ISSSTE, the Ministry of Health of the CDMX and the government of the State of Mexico.
The capitalist said that the ZMVM (CDMX and 55 municipalities of the Edomex that surround it) live about 22 million inhabitants so its government works in close coordination with the administration of the State of Mexico.
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Meanwhile, according to Sheinbaum, there is a hospital occupation in Mexico City of 3,424 coVID-19 patients, of whom 2,525 are unintubated and 899 intubated.
And total patients without intubation in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico since the pandemic began to date is 3,772 and 1,134 in need of intubation.
Sheinbaum said the epidemiological model used by the CDMX was worked with the Conacyt and the Ministry of Health.
He clarified that although the number of patients in need of intubation has not grown in recent days according to the estimate, it cannot be concluded that the curve is already being flattened.
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“If this is consistent for the next few days, then we could already be talking about the number of intubates in the Valley of Mexico really starting to decrease,” he said.
Finally, he said that at the moment they add 696 deaths and 2,214 recovered from hospitals, a figure that does not include patients who carry the disease at home.
At the highest point of the pandemic, as of Friday, Mexico recorded 3,160 deaths from COVID-19, in addition to 31 thousand 522 confirmed cases.
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Original source in Spanish