Mexico adds 57 new Covid-19 deaths on Sunday, lowest in 12 months

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Mexico added 57 new Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the lowest figure in a single day since May 2020, bringing the cumulative total to 218,985 deaths, the Health Ministry reported Sunday.

Health authorities also counted 1,175 new infections in their daily technical report on the incidence of the coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 2,365,792.

According to Johns Hopkins University, with these data, Mexico is the country in the world with the fourth-most deaths due to Covid-19, behind the United States, Brazil, and India, and is fifteenth in the number of confirmed infections.

However, the real figures may be much higher since the Government itself acknowledged on April 20, in the updated report entitled “Excess Mortality in Mexico”, that deaths associated with Covid-19 are slightly more than 332,500 after an analysis of death certificates.

Since the beginning of the health emergency, Mexico has studied 6.7 million patients, said Gabriela Nucamendi, director of epidemiological surveillance of non-communicable diseases, at a press conference.

She specified that the number of estimated cases is 2,552,389 when considering those waiting for the test result. There are 20,193 estimated active cases, that is, less than 1%, who have presented symptoms in the last 14 days.

In addition, it reported 1,886,233 people in the country who are considered recovered after having suffered from the disease.

It was also reported that the average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals is 10%, and 15% in terms of intensive care beds with ventilator, a reduction of 83% with respect to the peak level in this item that was reached between November and December 2020.

VACCINATION PLAN

At the conference, it was explained that 21,228,359 doses of Covid-19 vaccine had been administered up to this day, 198,480 during Saturday. It was also reported that a total of 9,400,251 people had received the second dose, necessary to complete the vaccination protocol.

The vaccination program currently includes adults over 60 years of age, adults between 50 and 59 years of age, medical personnel, and educational staff.

With 126 million inhabitants, Mexico has committed to purchase 34.4 million doses of the American Pfizer vaccine, 79.4 million of the British AstraZeneca, 35 million of the Chinese CanSino, 24 million of the Russian Sputnik V, 20 million of the Chinese Sinovac, 12 million of the Chinese Sinopharm and 51.4 million of the Covax platform.