There are 294,428 deaths from Covid-19 in Mexico today December 1

Mexico City.- There are 294 thousand 428 deaths from Covid-19 in Mexico and a historical cumulative of 3 million 891 thousand 218 infections, according to recent figures from the Ministry of Health.In the last covid report, 182 recent deaths related to the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, and 3 thousand 345 more infections were reported. According to the Johns Hopkins University count, Mexico is the fourth country with the most deaths from Covid-19, second only to the United States, Brazil and India. In contrast, it is the fifteenth in confirmed infections. Read more: New Covid-18 infections increased in Sinaloa in the last 24 hoursNever, the number of coronavirus infections in Mexico has decreased in the last 17 weeks, which could imply the end of the third wave that reached the peak between July and August. For their part, mexico’s health authorities recognize that real deaths from coronavirus could be around 440,000, based on death certificates. As a consequence, the historical cumulative of cases would be 4 million 113 thousand 844.As for the active cases, there are 21 thousand 229 patients with Covid-19 in Mexico, which represents 0.5%. Most people infected with the coronavirus began to exhibit symptoms in the last 14 days. Regarding hospital occupancy nationwide, it remains between 17 and 14 percent in general covid beds and with ventilator, respectively. While about 3 million 575 thousand 561 people recovered from this disease in the country. Regarding the new variant of the coronavirus called ómicron, the health authorities of Mexico at the press conference last Tuesday are updating genomic surveillance protocols for the search for the pathogen.” What is happening with the new variant is that the vaccines did not reach Africa. It is not that the new variant is terrible, it is that the poor were abandoned, as is often the case,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Wednesday. For his part, the Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell affirmed that the new variant of the coronavirus will reach Mexico and spread throughout the rest of the world, but affirmed that the effectiveness of the vaccines “remains in force” Progress in the vaccination plan So far, the Ministry of Health has applied about 132.8 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 to 76, 04 million people over 18 years of ageOf the population inoculated so far, only 85 percent have the complete vaccination schedule, that is, 65.09 million. Miners that 77 million Mexicans of legal age barely have a dose. Read more: “Sahuayo is sad”: 10-year-old Cecilia fights for her life after accident in JoquicingoIt should be mentioned that the country’s health authorities have already begun inoculating the population of 15 to 17 years of age without comorbidities.



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