MERIDA – Yucatan has the second highest number of active Covid-19 cases in the country, the Federal Secretariat of Health reports.
despite this, New wave of infections of the disease ruled out; it has also been said that the death rate from Covid-19 in the country is not high.
The country has registered 3,872 active Covid-19 cases in people who started showing symptoms of the infection after 14 days.
The states with the most active cases are
- Mexico City 1,134
- Yucatan Peninsula 161
- Queretaro and Quintana Roo 67
- Campeche 55
- Colima 43
- Baja California Sur 37
However, health authorities assured that no Cases and deaths increaseCovid-19 remains low, and no sign There may be a new wave of the disease.
In terms of deaths, the number confirmed by laboratory tests increased from 333,683 to 334,472, a difference of 789 over the same period.
As of August 1, the Ministry of Health reported 114 hospitalizations; hospital occupancy was higher than 5% in nine entities, including 21% in Colima and 12% in Zacatecas .
UNAM mandates masks before Covid-19 mutates
in the past days National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has sounded the alarm about behavioral changes in the Covid-19 pandemic and renewed its call for the use of face masks.
He said more positive cases had been registered in recent weeks, “suggesting widespread community-level transmission of the virus in most parts of the country.”
University Epidemiology and Emerging Risks Research Program (Prey) reported that indicators of hospitalizations, deaths and virus mutations “remain not significantly changed.”
The program reported that although the situation was “calm and generally favorable”, general measures were recommended to continue to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. virus or pneumonia..