Mexico registers 54 thousand 666 deaths from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and 498 thousand 380 accumulated cases, according to the latest report presented by the Director General of Epidemiology, José Luis Alomía Zegarra, who pointed out that 42 thousand 530 are the estimated active cases.
For the week of August 10-16, Mexico City remains on an orange traffic light. In this color, the opening of restaurants, public parks and cafeterias with a reduced capacity is allowed. In addition, museums, cinemas and swimming pools will reopen this week.
Nuevo León, Colima and Nayarit lead hospital occupation
Hospital occupancy in the country is 12,765 beds, which represents 41 percent of the 31,450 existing throughout the country. States with The largest occupation are Nuevo León, Nayarit, Colima, Coahuila and Puebla.
For beds with a fan, 3,775 of the total 10,710 are in use. In this case, Colima leads the hospital occupancy with 67 percent, followed by Nuevo León, Aguascalientes, Baja California and Mexico City.
López-Gatell warns of the risks of making the use of face masks mandatory by law
The undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, said that “great care must be taken when sanitary control measures make the person responsible”, with respect to the bill on the mandatory use of face masks in Colima.
Some of the risks that he identified in the approval of this measure are the possible abuse of human rights, the establishment of coercion, mutual blame between citizens, among others.
Human plasma is not a regular treatment against coronavirus
López-Gatell warned that convalescent plasma is not a standard treatment in any part of the world and much less in Mexico against the coronavirus, as it has not yet been shown to be effective.
He clarified that it is in the clinical research phase to determine if it helps reduce discomfort from the virus. “It is not yet, until today it is August 12, it is not a regular treatment,” he emphasized.
Details according to AstraZeneca for vaccine against covid-19 will be given in the ‘morning’
The Undersecretary of Health said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked them to accompany him this Thursday in his conference, as well as the head of the agency, Jorge Alcocer, and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, to give details about the agreement by which Mexico and Argentina will produce the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.
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