▲ In the week of January 22 to 28, 2023, 25,488 cases were confirmed in Mexico. In the image, distribution of covid-19 tests at a school in Sacramento, California, in 2022.Photo App
Nestor Jimenez and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, February 1, 2023, p. eleven
The sixth wave of covid-19 infections in the country began to decline after registering a rebound during the last week of December, the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, reported yesterday.
When presenting the biweekly report on health during the morning press conference at the National Palace, the official explained that The trend is for covid-19 to become a disease more typical of the cold season, as are most respiratory viruses, and periods of transmission no longer occur between hot seasons
but stressed that as long as the virus exists in some part of the world, the possibility of a rebound remains, which cannot be predicted.
With different graphs, he detailed that deaths went from 36 per day on average in the week of December 25 to 31, to one daily death on average in the week of January 22 to 28.
The forecast is that this trend will continue for several weeks and will eventually end this cycle of epidemic transmission.
he added.
Likewise, the weekly report of the Ministry of Health (Ssa) indicated that from January 22 to 28, 25,488 cases of covid-19 were confirmed, with laboratory tests, for a total of 7,368,252 in the country. . As for deaths, 301 were added. The global figure is 332,198 registered.
Another indicator of the decrease in the sixth wave are the active cases, which correspond to people who started with symptoms of the infection in the past 14 days and which the Ssa estimated at 29,738. The number has been decreasing since the first week of January 2023.
The entities with the most people with active infection in the rate per 100,000 inhabitants are Mexico City, Aguascalientes, Colima, Querétaro, Nayarit, Tlaxcala, Nuevo León, Baja California Sur, Zacatecas and Guanajuato.
Cuban specialists arrive
Meanwhile, the general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, announced that, as part of the program for hiring Cuban doctors, 68 more specialists arrived on January 27, adding to the 552 already they were in the country.
He pointed out that they are experts in geriatrics, dermatology, allergology, rehabilitation, ophthalmology, general surgery, cardiology and internal medicine, and they will join hospitals in 11 entities.
At the same time, he pointed out that he closed the call for the hiring of general practitioners and nursing personnel for places of high marginalization and difficult access in six states. 3,720 vacancies were offered, of which 99 percent were covered. After receiving the applications, the validation process continues, to start working as of March 1st.
Meanwhile, in Hidalgo, Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo, the preparation of a diagnosis began to identify the needs in terms of personnel, infrastructure, equipment, supplies and medicines, as part of the IMSS-Bienestar plan, which has the purpose of providing care to those who do not They have social security.
