Mexico registers 136 deaths and 1,263 infections from the coronavirus in one day

Mexico registered 136 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours to accumulate a total of 204,147 deaths from the disease, reported this Sunday the Ministry of Health.

In addition, the health authorities reported 1,263 new infections in their daily technical report on the incidence of the coronavirus, which adds up to 2,250,458 confirmed cases.

However, the official death toll may be much higher, since on March 28 the federal government itself reported, in its most up-to-date report on “excess mortality,” that the country had registered 294,287 deaths associated with covid until February 13, after studying death certificates.

According to these data and those reported daily, the country would easily exceed 300,000 deaths from coronavirus, a figure that would place it at the same level as Brazil, second behind the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

In addition, Mexico ranks fourteenth in the world in the number of infections.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6.13 million patients have been studied in Mexico, according to the official government portal, which this weekend does not offer daily conferences to give the daily report of the covid-19.

The estimated number of cases is 2,443,755 when considering those awaiting the test result. Among them, there are 24,537 active cases, that is, 1% of all patients have presented symptoms in the last 14 days.

In addition, the technical report indicated that there are 1,788,209 people in the country who consider themselves recovered after having suffered the disease.

Regarding deaths, Mexico City, the focus of the pandemic, accumulates 19.4% of all deaths nationwide, that is, almost one in every five deaths.

VACCINATION PLAN

The Ministry of Health indicated that to this day just over 9 million doses of the vaccine against covid-19 have been administered to the Mexican population.

And just over a million people have received the two doses necessary to complete the vaccination schedule.

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

Mexico has so far accumulated 14.67 million vaccines from five different pharmaceutical companies with which it has a contract.

With 126 million inhabitants, Mexico has committed 34.4 million doses of the American vaccine Pfizer, 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 from the also Chinese Sinopharm and 51.4 million from the WHO Covax platform.