So far, he points out in his morning update, 306,920 people have lost their lives due to serious complications from Covid-19, but the number of confirmed cases between yesterday and today has not yet been released.
The official report indicates that in the period from January 16 to 22, there was a 28 percent decrease in the number of affected, while hospitalization decreased two points in general beds and one in those with a mechanical ventilator, with what that today’s occupancy is 45 and 30 percent, respectively.
The report adds that the number of estimated active cases was 223,958, which represent 4.3 percent of those who have had Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in the country in February 2020.
Regarding the National Vaccination Plan, the agency reported that 311,179 doses against the coronavirus were applied yesterday. Of 83 million 651 thousand 266 people who have received some of the biologicals, 94 percent already have the complete scheme.
The 10 states that accumulate the majority of coronavirus cases in the country are Mexico City, State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Tabasco, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Sonora and Veracruz.
As additional data, it indicates that there are 253 minors from zero to 17 years of age with the disease, according to the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (Ginsaid) platform, including a 13-year-old girl, hospitalized in Aguascalientes.
In addition, four minors are also monitored in a Sinaloa hospital and whose infections coincide, according to the symptoms, with the holidays and New Year’s celebrations in the port of Mazatlán. Only one had symptoms, the others were classified as asymptomatic.
Of those 253, a total of 194 are from zero to 14 years old, who are the ones who do not have access to the vaccination program. In that segment there are seven newborns.
Currently, the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants are already circulating in Mexico, although the former predominates with 4,123 reported cases, since many others who have acquired it have not gone to health centers, and some do not even know they are carriers. of the SARS-CoV2 virus in its new variants.
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