President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said it can already be ruled out that there is an “overflow” of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, thanks to measures of sound distance.
“Most important of all is that, despite the suffering in the loss of human life, we have been able to avoid an overflow,” he said this Friday at his morning conference.
He explained that although he did not like comparisons with other countries, he said that “we are not in the situation that unfortunately other countries are.”
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“We were also helped by the strategy of Mexican doctors, Mexican scientists, to flatten the curve, because if the measures of sound distance had not been taken and people had not helped us as they are helping us, then the pandemic would have completely overflowed and we would have no way of caring for the sick and saving lives.”
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However, Mexico ranked tenth among the countries with the most coronavirus deaths, with 6,510 recorded as of Thursday, surpassing Canada with 6,267 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
First, the United States is ranked, with 94,688 deaths.
Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell said that 59,567 confirmed cases have accumulated and of these 12,905 are active, of people who have had symptoms in the last 14 days.
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Confirmed cases and daily deaths of COVID-19 in Mexico
Updated information with the Technical Communiqué of the Ministry of Health.
Data since 27 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country.
SOURCE: Ministry of Health
New deaths from COVID-19 in Mexico
Updated information with the Technical Communiqué of the Ministry of Health.
Data since 27 February 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the country.
SOURCE: Ministry of Health
Updated information with the Technical Communiqué of the Ministry of Health.
Lethality is the percentage of deaths compared to total COVID-19 infected.
Data since 27 February 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the country.
SOURCE: Secretariat of Health + WHO
Daily percentage increase of confirmed cases
Updated information with the Technical Communiqué of the Ministry of Health.
Increase in
compared to the day before
This graph shows the acceleration of the epidemiological curve since March 1.
The first confirmed case in the country was on 27 February 2020.
SOURCE: Ministry of Health
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