Hospital admissions for COVID-19 were down 14% in Mexico City. This is the largest reduction since May, according to Eduardo Clark, director of digital governance at the ADIP.
“We’re between orange and yellow,” Clark said, so Mexico City stays one more week at orange traffic lights. He explained that the city has 27 points according to the measurement made by the federal government to determine the color of the traffic light.
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As for hospitalizations, they went from 3,354 hospitalized (registered until last August 13) to 3,207 people admitted, which means a reduction of 147 people hospitalized daily.
He added that the number of positive cases and also registered a drop of 40% in the last week, going from 2,900 in the first days of August to 2,100 this week.
This, Clark said, means a 14.9% reduction in positivity.
On vaccination, he said that 48% of the capital’s population – over 18 years old – already has a complete schedule, while 90% already have the first dose.
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