A million and a half AstraZeneca vaccines from the US arrived in Mexico

On Sunday night they arrived at the International Airport of Mexico City, from the United States, 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca.

The government of Mexico, headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, agreed with the United States 2.7 million doses. AeroUnion flight 501, from Chicago, Illinois, United States, landed at terminal 1.

The antigen packaged in the North American country will be received by Pedro Zenteno, director of Brimex, and the charge d’affaires of the US embassy in Mexico, Jhon Creamer.

Marcelo Ebrard, head of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, reported that with this new shipment, 12 million 323 thousand 595 vaccines will be reached.

It should be noted that Ebrard thanked Joe Biden, President of the United States, for the support in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, as he assured that it is a reinforcement that shows the cooperation between the two countries.

“Mexico thanks the Government of President Biden for its authorization to AstraZeneca to send 2.7 million doses of vaccines manufactured by that company to our country. It is a very significant endorsement at a critical moment that shows the close cooperation of both nations ”, mentioned.

According to the daily report of the Ministry of Health, this March 28 the antigen was injected to 123,624 people, thus accumulating 6,852,596 doses applied since December 24, 2020. In addition, the number of vaccines that have been lost adds up to a total of 4,266 (0.06%).

CURRENT LANDSCAPE

In Mexico, this Sunday they registered 201,623 deaths from coronavirus since the transmission of the disease began in the country. However, in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health (SS) reported 194 new deaths associated with the disease.

Alethse de la Torre Rosas, director of the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV and AIDS, reported that there are 34,495 (1%) active infections, which represents people who had symptoms in the previous 14 days.

From week 10 to 11 of 2021 a 10% decrease in estimated cases (sum of confirmed and suspected infections) nationwide, counting 2,420,746 until this Sunday. Likewise, 1,761,786 people recovered from the disease were reported.

“The good news is that this downward trend continues, both of the estimated cases and of those recovered, remember that this curve of recovered persons is practically a mirror of the estimated cases, and again the message is very clear: most of the people who develop SARS-CoV-2, fortunately will have a recovery”, Said the specialist.

Regarding people hospitalized due to SARS-CoV-2, the official announced that occupation at the national level was located at 20 percent. According to the Serious Acute Respiratory Infection Network (SARI) there are 25,606 general beds available and 5,807 busy. While with a fan there is an availability of 8,282 that can be accessed by the sick before the 2,496 that are saturated.

Currently there is no entity in the Republic with more than 50% occupancy in general care beds or to care for patients in critical situation due to COVID-19.

859,242 have been applied to front-line care staff for patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. first doses. Of this total, 619,697 (72%) individuals have received the complete scheme.

On the other hand, government data indicates that 5,145,235 older adults have been immunized against the disease, of this total, 187,862 people received the second dose. In Campeche, the biological product 22,934 health workers have been injected, of which 17,626 (77%) were inoculated a second time.

Based on the SSa figures, 13,327 (0.2%) Events Supposedly Associated with Vaccination or Immunization have been reported. Of this total, 12,397 correspond to the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech, 427 to the antigen from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, 136 to Sputnik and 367 to Sinovac.

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