Mexico registered 1,770 new deaths and 12,153 cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, for a total of 161,240 deaths and 1,886,245 confirmed infections, the Ministry of Health indicated 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.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Mexico, 4.76 million patients have been studied, said the director of Epidemiology, José Luis Alomía, at a press conference.
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In addition, he said that there are one million 450 thousand 237 people who are considered recovered.
The official pointed out that the estimated number of cases is 2 million 82 thousand 399 million when considering those that await the result of their test.
Among them there are 80,941 estimated active cases, that is, 4% of the total that has presented symptoms in the last two weeks.
Until this day there is an average occupation of 56% of general beds in Mexican hospitals that care for patients with covid-19, among which Mexico City, with 83% saturation, and its neighboring State of Mexico, with the 82%.
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Regarding deaths, Mexico City alone accumulates 18.2% of the total nationwide.
Vaccination plan
In the conference it was reported that 686 thousand 601 doses have already been applied among health and educational personnel and that there are already 54 thousand 162 who have received both doses.
The Mexican government said on Wednesday that the contract signed for the Sputnik V vaccine has already been sent to Russia and is waiting for them to return it signed, a situation that would occur on this day to schedule the delivery date.
This Wednesday, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell recalled that the portfolio of vaccines that Mexico has secured with the corresponding contracts “has sought to have the greatest opportunity to access the vaccines that have been the most effective” .
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Mexico has agreements for 34.4 million doses from Pfizer, 77.4 million from the British AstraZeneca, 35 million from CanSino and 51.5 million from the Covax platform.
In addition, he negotiated with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, 24 million doses of the Sputnik V formula.