CDMX.- The La Raza Hospital in Mexico City already reached 80% of its capacity in the number of hospitalizations due to the regrowth of coronavirus contagions. Nearly seven months after the Covid-19 pandemic began in Mexico, the Infectology Unit of the Hospital La Raza of IMSS has cared for thousands of patients with this disease, and the number of hospitalized is increasing because the contagion curve has rebounded in the last 10 days.
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A large number of people are seen outside the hospital waiting to be provided with information about the inpatient family member.
Mexico City has risen in the number of confirmed cases and maintains about 40 percent hospital capacity, but the La Raza Infectology Unit is already at 80 percent of its capacity. According to official information from the capital government, the CDMX’s epidemiological traffic light is in orange with a hospital occupation of 40 percent with 2,000,757 hospitalized and a capacity of 6,000 959.La head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported that Mexico City will remain at orange traffic lights. It also indicated that the CDMX is at a point 40% below the most critical point so far from the pandemic, which was in May.
We are not at the level of returning to the red light, but we are not in the condition of opening new activities. We’re on alert,” Sheinbaum said.
In this regard, he highlighted that it was important to continue hygiene and prevention care, and not to let your guard down. Regarding the increase in hospitalizations, the head of the capital government said they are still in time to take steps to prevent a covid-19 outbreak or upticks like those in May.
