Mexico registered 433 new deaths Y 4 thousand 384 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, for a total of 159 thousand 533 deaths Y one million 874 thousand 092 infections confirmed, said the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
With these figures, Mexico ranks thirteenth in the world in the number of infections and third with the most deaths from the pandemic, behind the United States and Brazil, according to the US Johns Hopkins University.
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Last January was noted as the month with the highest mortality from the coronavirus in Mexico with at least 32,729 deceased.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Mexico, 4.72 million patients have been studied, informed the director of Health Promotion, Ricardo Cortés, at a press conference.
In addition, he said that there are one million 436 thousand 482 people who are considered recovered.
Among them there are 83,529 active cases estimated, that is, 4% of the total that has presented symptoms in the last two weeks.
To this day, there is an average occupation of 55% of general beds in Mexican hospitals that care for patients with covid-19, among which Mexico City, with 84% saturation, and its neighboring State of Mexico, with the 82%.
This week and next, of the 32 states of Mexico, 13 are at the red epidemiological traffic light for maximum contagion alert, 17 in orange for high danger and 2 in yellow for medium risk.
Regarding deaths, Mexico City alone accumulates 18.2% of the total at the country level.
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At the conference it was reported that 677 thousand 539 doses have already been applied among health and educational personnel and that there are already 45 thousand 748 who have received both doses.
On Tuesday, the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell reported that the Mexican government signed a contract for 24 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, which will soon receive authorization for emergency use in the country.
“Yesterday the secretary signed the Sputnik V contract and we have 400 thousand doses in February, 1 million doses in March, 6 million in April and the remainder in May,” reported the official in charge of managing the pandemic in the country .
Mexico’s announcement came hours after the scientific journal The Lancet published an interim analysis of data from the phase III trial of the Sputnik V vaccine, suggesting an efficacy of 91.6% with two doses.
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In addition, the Mexican government presented the vaccination registration platform that includes people over 60 years of age who this month will begin to receive the first dose for a process that intends to be completed throughout March.
Mexico has agreements for 34.4 million doses from Pfizer, 77.4 million from Britain’s AstraZeneca, 35 million from CanSino and 51.5 million from the Covax platform.
In addition, López Obrador negotiated with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, 24 million doses of the Sputnik V formula.
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