The death toll from Covid-19 in Mexico continues to rise and things are not encouraging at all
Mexico registered 668 deaths from COVID-19 and 6,406 infections in the last 24 hours to reach 37,574 deaths and 324,041 confirmed cases, health authorities reported this Thursday.
They specified that the increase in infections was 2%, while deaths grew by 1.8%.
The Mexican authorities indicated that of the accumulated cases since the declaration of the pandemic, on February 28, 28,786 correspond to patients with symptoms of COVID-19 developed in the last 14 days.
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In addition, they said that until this day 203,464 people have recovered from the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
In Mexico there are 82,567 suspected cases awaiting clinical results and so far 782,063 people have been studied, of which 375,455 had a negative result and 699,496 tests have been completed.
In addition to the confirmed data, the authorities have included a section of estimated confirmed cases in the country, with 363,599 that were calculated by means of a percentage of positivity of the suspects.
They also presented estimated active cases, with 48,857 and estimated deaths, with 39,511.
Mexico City continues to be the entity with the highest number of active cases, and also with the most deaths, followed by the State of Mexico, Baja California, Veracruz and Puebla.
The authorities specified that there are a total of 29,991 beds for general care, of which 16,241 are available and 13,750 occupied.
Mexico is in its seventh week of the so-called "new normal" that operates based on a four-color epidemiological traffic light that regulates economic and social activities.
In 14 states the maximum risk red is applied and in 18 entities the high risk orange is applied and yet no state has been declared a yellow traffic light (medium risk) or green (low risk).
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