translated from Spanish: Mexico reaches what Gatell called catastrophic scenario: 60,000 deaths

With 644 more deaths per COVID-19, Mexico has already reached 60 thousand 254 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, a figure that in June the Health authorities considered catastrophic.
Federal Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell indicated on June 4 that a catastrophic scenario for the country would involve more than 60,000 deaths per COVID-19. Today we reach that number of deceased.
Read: The scale of the pandemic is underestimated in Mexico, says WHO
At a press conference, health authorities reported a total of 556 thousand 216 confirmed cases, 6 thousand 482 more than yesterday Friday.

So far there is an estimate that there are 83 thousand 146 suspected cases of coronavirus in the country.
Nationally, hospital occupancy is 37% for non-serious patients, in this area, Nayarit is the entity that tops the list with 68% of occupied beds, followed by Nuevo León with 65%; and Hidalgo, with 54%.
In the field of beds for critical patients, at the national level there is an occupancy of 33%. Colima reported the highest level, with 62% occupancy; second is Nuevo León, with 55%; aguascalientes in third, with 51%.

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COVID-19 cases and deaths 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 COVID-19 cases 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

Deaths confirmed by COVID-19 in Mexico

Updated information with the Technical Communiqué of the Ministry of Health.

*They do not correspond to the day they occurred, but to the day they joined the total record of deaths. Data since 27 February 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the country.

SOURCE: Ministry of Health

CoVID-19 case ratio 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

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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Original source in Spanish