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COVID traffic light in Mexico: 9 states will be green, only Baja California will be orange

- October 2, 2021

For the third time in a row, there will be no entity in red, which represents the near end of the “third wave” of infections

The Ministry of Health (SSa) updated this Friday the Epidemiological Traffic Light of coronavirus ( COVID-19 ), which will be in force from October 4 to 17.

Through the official website, the Government of Mexico indicated that the country will be colored as follows:https://6c0160e25e87b493cd7a775d038b447e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

In color “red” (maximum risk of contagion) there will be no state for the third consecutive time so far in this “third wave”. The last ones were Colima, Guerrero, Puebla, Hidalgo, Tabasco, Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, a month and a half ago.

On the contrary, in the color “green” (low risk) there will be nine states, five more than two weeks ago: Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Chiapas remain, and Durango, Zacatecas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Quintana Roo are added.

People with masks rest this September 30 in a square in the Historic Center of Mexico City (Mexico).  EFE / Carlos Ramírez
People with masks rest this September 30 in a square in the Historic Center of Mexico City (Mexico). EFE / Carlos Ramírez

In “yellow” or moderate risk, there will be 22 states, two less than in the last update: Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Querétaro, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz , State of Mexico, Mexico City, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán.

While in “orange” (high risk) there will be only Baja California, when 15 days ago there were four.

This indicator confirms a clear decrease in cases of contagion, hospitalization, and deaths in the country in this “third wave” of the disease.

The four elements evaluated to determine the color of the traffic light in each entity are: the percentage of occupation of beds in intensive care, percentage of positive cases of coronavirus; trend of occupied beds and trend of positive cases; that is, the expected behavior based on current numbers, and which is calculated by the National Council of Science and Technology ( Conacyt ).

Advancement of the pandemic

A man receives a post COVID-19 rehabilitation at the "Toghether against pain" association in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 27, 2021. - The association provides free of charge rehabilitation services to low-income patients who had Coronavirus. (Photo by ULISES RUIZ / AFP)A man receives a post-COVID-19 rehabilitation at the “Toghether against pain” association in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 27, 2021. – The association provides free-of-charge rehabilitation services to low-income patients who had Coronavirus. (Photo by ULISES RUIZ / AFP)

On the other hand, it was reported that as of this Friday, October 1, 3,671,611 cases of accumulated infections of coronavirus ( COVID-19) have been registered. In addition, since the beginning of the epidemic, Mexico has suffered  277,976 deaths from the disease.

This represents that there was an increase of  3,754 infected in the last 24 hours, as well as  471 deaths.

Likewise, there are  2,906,771 people recovered, 6,254,758 negative cases and a total of  10,311,181 people studied from the first case.

According to the daily technical statement of the Ministry of Health, to date there are an estimated  62,158 active cases of the disease in the country; that is, patients who began to present symptoms in the last 14 days (September 18 to October 1, 2021).

Tabasco, Colima, Mexico City, Yucatán, Guanajuato and Querétaro are the entities with the most active cases, in order from highest to lowest.

Regarding hospital availability, the average occupation of general beds in health centers is  32%  and 29%  for intensive therapy beds.

Advancement of Vaccination

File photograph of an elderly woman receives the CanSino vaccine against the coronavirus, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, state of Oaxaca (Mexico).  EFE / Luis Villalobos
File photograph of an elderly woman receives the CanSino vaccine against the coronavirus, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, state of Oaxaca (Mexico). EFE / Luis Villalobos

Regarding the day of the National Vaccination Strategy against SARS-CoV-2, the agency announced that so far  101,782,415 doses  of the formulas  Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Janssen, Sinovac, CanSino and Modern

Just this Thursday, September 30, 591,931 new doses were applied.

Of that total,  45,794, 439 people have received the full schedule  (two doses or one, as is the case with the Cansino and Janssen vaccine). This means that  71% of the population aged 18 years and older has received at least one dose in the country, according to the Ssa.

The City of Mexico, Queretaro and Quintana Roo report the highest vaccination coverage.

This agency reiterates the invitation to people over 18 years of age to  go to get vaccinated.

Source: infobae.com

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