The figures go up and up, Mexico is still in phase three with more than 139 thousand infections by covid-19
Mexico registered a new daily record of COVID-19 infections with 5,222 notified this Friday to reach 139,196 cases since the start of the pandemic, in addition to reporting 504 deaths in the day for a cumulative 16,448.
The cases that were notified in these last 24 hours represent a 3.9% increase compared to the 133,974 that had accumulated yesterday Thursday, reported the director of Epidemiology of the Government of Mexico, José Luis Alomía.
The 504 new deaths registered this Friday, with which 16,448 have accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, represented an increase of 3.1% compared to 15,944 the previous day.
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The 5,222 cases of this day represent the highest figure that had been reported for a single day, after 4,883 infections had been registered on June 10. The record for deaths from COVID-19 for a single day was reached on June 3 with 1,092 deaths.
Alomía confirmed that the authorities have in their records 1,508 suspicious deaths of which they are awaiting the result of laboratory studies to determine if COVID-19 was the cause of their death.
Of the infections accumulated to date, 21,872 cases, 15.7% constitute the so-called active epidemic because they are patients with symptoms developed during the most recent fourteen days, explained the health official.
Mexico City and the State of Mexico are in the highest range of accumulated cases in the country, as well as in the so-called assets and deaths.
The authorities reported a universe of 393,714 people subjected to studies, of which 197,590 had a negative result and 59,928 are considered suspects, most of them in the last ten days.
Alomía reported that of the 24,253 general beds available for hospitals, 11,090 are occupied and 13,163 remain free for patients who are not in serious condition.
He confirmed that of the 8,339 intensive care beds in the country’s hospital network, 38% (3,184) are occupied and the rest, 5,155, available.
Mexico kept its non-essential economy closed during the months of April and May, in which it applied contingency and confinement measures to its population, and as of June launched the stage of the new normal with a gradual opening based on a four-color traffic light in the states of the country.
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