Laura Poy Solano
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday June 11, 2022, p. eleven
The Ministry of Health (Ssa) reported that confirmed cases of covid-19 in the country increased yesterday by 6,170, for a total of 5,814,866, while deaths rose by 53, for a cumulative of 325 thousand 144.
Active cases, that is, with symptoms in the last 14 days, also maintain their upward trend. This Friday 37 thousand 292 were reported, a day before there were 32 thousand 957, so the incidence rate of active cases is 27 per hundred thousand inhabitants.
The daily technical report on the state of the pandemic indicates a daily average of cases per week of 3,072 for the period from May 29 to June 4, that is, more than a thousand additional infections in the previous epidemiological week.
Regarding hospital occupancy, the national rate remains at 3 percent for general beds and one percent for ventilator beds, intended for critically ill patients, so despite the increase in infections, the number has not risen. demand for hospital beds.
The federal agency explained that most of the confirmed cases in the last five weeks are present in young people between 18 and 29 years old, followed by the group of 30 to 39 and 40 to 49. The entities with the highest report of active infections are Baja Southern California, Mexico City and Sinaloa.
