Eighteen of the 25 COVID hospitals in Chihuahua are above 50% occupancy. Three of them are 100% and seven more between 80 and 93%.
The deputy director of Preventive Medicine, Wendy Avila Zorrilla, reported on Tuesday that according to the report made by 25 hospitals to the Ministry of State Health, hospital occupation continues to increase with 801 hospitalized patients and 155 intubated.
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According to the COVID-19 technical report this October 27, the centers with 100% hospital occupancy in Chihuahua are President General Lázaro Cárdenas, the Central Hospital of the State and HGZ 6 in Ciudad Juárez.
Other nosocomios with high percentage of occupancy are HGR 66 of Ciudad Juárez (93%), ISSSTE de Ciudad Delicias (89%), Guachochi (88%), ISSSTE de Ciudad Juárez (86%), HGS 22 Nuevo Casas Grandes (85%), San Juanito (82%) and HGR 1 Chihuahua (81%).
Eight more hospitals are located above 50%: HG Juárez (78%), HGZMF 23 Hidalgo Parral (75%), HGZ 35 Ciudad Juarez (72%), HGZMF 11 Ciudad Delicias (68%), Chihuahua Regional Military Hospital (67%), 23/O Infantry Battalion (61%), Regional Delicias Hospital (57%) and HGZMF 16 in Cuauhtémoc City (54%).
As of Tuesday, 23,501 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the state, most of them in Ciudad Juarez (12 thousand 476), Chihuahua (5 thousand 745) and Delicias (thousand 112).
There are 6,000,847 suspected cases and a thousand,807 deaths have been reported from the disease. 11,636 people have recovered.
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Chihuahua had maintained a stable trend of COVID contagion until week 40 of the pandemic, when cases soared.
For this reason, on October 22nd Governor Javier Corral announced that the state would return to the red light, “an extraordinary measure for a critical moment”.
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