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Yolanda Chio, Juan Carlos Flores, Irene Sánchez and the correspondent in Guanajuato
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, December 30, 2021, p. 4
In 24 hours, the infections of Covid-19 in Nuevo León went from 260 to 409, reported the state Secretary of Health (Ssa), which on Tuesday declared the beginning of the fourth wave of infections due to the omicron variant. This figure is the highest since that reported on October 7, when 433 patients were detected.
Yesterday, the Ssa specified that the new figure is five times higher than that registered on December 20, when the entity was still on a plateau.
It also confirmed that four people died from Covid-19, bringing the total to 14,989 deaths since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
In the case of hospitalized patients, the number also increased from 237 to 241; 52 of them require a fan. However, he said, hospital occupancy continues at 10 percent.
On Tuesday, the head of the local SSA, Alma Rosa Marroquín, said that, after the arrival of the fourth wave of infections to the entity, the omicron variant would be the predominant in the next 15 days.
There were long lines yesterday morning at the Covid test modules installed by the state government. In the one located in the center of Monterrey, on Zaragoza Street, lines of up to 30 vehicles were observed.
In Colima, state health authorities prevented the landing of the Viking Orion cruise ship in the port of Manzanillo for failing to comply with the protocols when transporting passengers with Covid-19.
They expressed that in accordance with the guidelines established for epidemiological surveillance, the cruise ship did not comply with the maximum incubation period. due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that occurred in some passengers, so it would be until next January 6, 2022 when it could have said authorization
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They will serve travelers in Mazatlan
In Sinaloa, the tourist cruise ship Konigsdam arrived at the port of Mazatlán with about 2,000 people, where 14 cases of Covid-19 were detected among passengers.
The Secretary of Tourism, María del Rosario Torres Noriega, indicated that only travelers who do not present symptoms will get off the ship, and those infected will receive medical attention.
This, after the agreement reached by Health and Tourism authorities to resume the reception of ships in Mazatlán and Topolobampo, where strict health prevention measures will be applied.
A private laboratory that misdiagnosed five cases of omicron in the city of León could be suspended, said the Ssa de Guanajuato.
Given the dissemination of the result of one of the patients, the agency contacted them, subjected them to new studies and all tested negative for the variant.
The head of Health in the entity, Daniel Díaz Martínez, specified that the AL Genos laboratory did not use the certified sequencing method to correctly identify the virus.
