translated from Spanish: Mexico posts 490 COVID-19 deaths and reaches 75,000 deaths

Health authorities recorded 490 more deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus, for a total of 75,000 deaths from the disease.
There were also 5,408 more cases, for a cumulative 715,457 people who have fallen ill since the start of the epidemic.
Read more: The reasons why Mexico is the country with the highest COVID lethality in Latin America
However, the authorities estimate that 34 thousand 223 (5% of those who have tested positive for COVID-19) are active cases from developing symptoms in the last 14 days.
The percentage of positivity, which indicates the level of suspicious people confirming to be carriers of the virus, increased in recent weeks, from 37 to 39%.
At a daily press conference, authorities estimated that there was a reduction in COVID-19 deaths of 43%, between weeks 36 and 37, as well as 17% in confirmed cases.
The percentage of recoveries was also reduced in this period by 3%.
Low hospitalization by COVID-19
The Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, said that for the first time no entity in the country has occupations greater than 50% in general beds, as the one that reports the highest percentage is Nayarit, with 47%.
Nationally, it’s 28%.
As for beds for critical patients, who require a fan, the occupancy is 25%; Colima is the entity with the highest percentage, 43%.

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COVID-19 cases and deaths in Mexico

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

Data since February 27, 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country.

SOURCE: Ministry of Health

New COVID-19 cases in Mexico

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

Data since February 27, 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country.

SOURCE: Ministry of Health

Deaths confirmed by COVID-19 in Mexico

Updated information to those 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 death log. Data since February 27, 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the country.

SOURCE: Ministry of Health

COVID-19 case relationship in Mexico

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

Data since February 27, 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country.

SOURCE: Ministry of Health

Daily percentage increase in confirmed cases

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

Increased

compared to the previous day

This graph shows the acceleration of the epidemiological curve from March 1.

The first confirmed case in the country was on February 27, 2020.

SOURCE: Ministry of Health

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Original source in Spanish