Mexico is the seventh country with the most infections and the fourth with the most deaths, only behind the United States, Brazil and India, today it exceeds 694 thousand
Mexico reached 694,121 confirmed cases and 73,258 deaths caused by COVID-19 by adding the 5,167 new infections and 455 deaths that were reported this Saturday to the country’s health authorities.
In the daily balance on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic presented at the National Palace, percentage increases of 0.74% in cases and 0.62% in deaths are observed compared to the panorama of the previous day.
Since the pandemic was declared last February, Mexico has applied a million 580,377 tests to patients who presented signs and symptoms of COVID-19, explained the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion of the Mexican government, Hugo López-Gatell.
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In about 43% of these tests the result was positive for the virus while a total of 804,832 were negative, a figure that represents just under 51%, according to the data of the daily balance.
The Ministry of Health indicated that to date 81,424 suspected cases have been reported, which are patients who have already had laboratory tests but whose results are pending.
When considering the cases and deaths confirmed by COVID-19 plus the percentage of suspects that are expected to test positive, López Gatell estimated that there may be 726,944 estimated infections and 74,951 deaths in the country.
López-Gatell confirmed that the number of patients recovered since the declaration of the pandemic has reached 496,224 people who have already gone home.
Hospital occupancy in the country is 31% for general beds, 9,562 of the 31,167 available in the country and 25% in those equipped with a ventilator and used for critically ill patients, 2,692 of the 10,758 prepared.
COVID-19 is already the fourth cause of death in Mexico, only below heart disease, diabetes and malignant tumors, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
Mexico is the seventh country with the most infections and the fourth with the most deaths, only behind the United States, Brazil and India.