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May 8, the peak date of the CDMX coronavirus epidemic

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, pointed out that next week it is expected to reachhe peak of the epidemic due to coronavirus in Mexico City and its metropolitan area.

At a press conference in the National Palace, the head of the federal Executive indicated that in Mexico City, between 6- May 8 It will be “the most difficult point and from there the declines will begin”, but after these dates it is expected to have a decrease in cases of contagion of coronavirus.

For his part, López-Gatell noted that it will be among the May 6 and 10 when the peak occurs, according to the projections of the mathematical models.

In a press conference, the undersecretary reiterated, as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had reported, that it is Mexico City and its metropolitan area with the State of Mexico; Cancun Quintana Roo; Culiacán, Sinaloa and Tijuana, Baja California, the areas where the pandemic is concentrated and where he highlighted that the metropolitan areas of Guadalajara, Jalisco and Monterrey, Nuevo León, were able to stabilize the increase in infections.

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In the National Palace, Hugo Lópe-Gatell pointed out that the fact that contagion cases are concentrated in these areas does not mean that cases will not be registered in the rest of the country, since, he pointed out, there is already a Covid registry in all municipalities. 19, but that they are at different stages of the pandemic.

“When will the peak of the pandemic be? As we had said that between May 8 and 10, if we were very strong on May 6. So we have a week to go until that peak moment and then it will begin to descend, but one important thing is if and only if we stay at home, stay at home, this is very important because if we start to leave home, this prediction will not be It is going to comply and we are going to have an increase in the epidemiological curve, ”he commented.

He explained that the coronavirus pandemic is currently concentrated in five urban regions “Mexico City, or the metropolitan area, which includes the metropolitan municipalities with the State of Mexico; the Cancun area, the municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo; Culiacán, Sinaloa, and Tijuana, Baja California, and in Tabasco is Villahermosa with a little dispersion from some municipalities where there are smaller settlements of people.

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However, López-Gatell pointed out that this does not mean that there will be no cases of coronavirus in the rest of the country, since “practically all municipalities have a case, but they are at different stages of the epidemic.”

He highlighted that the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara, Jalisco, and that of Monterrey, Nuevo León has stabilized the increase in cases “and this is excellent news, because of the three metropolitan areas, now only one is active (Mexico City) “In any case, there is a risk that either of these two would start to have more cases, but at this time, given the healthy distance interventions, they have been maintained with very low transmission.”

He asked the population to consult the page www.hospitales.covid19.cdmx.gob.mx so that in the event that someone needs to go see availability, because, he said, the health institutes that are in the hospital area, south of Mexico City, no longer have the capacity to attend to more cases, because Because of their prestige and because they were the first to become Covid hospitals, they can no longer receive more people.

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“This does not mean that the entire health system is at its limit of availability, there are other hospitals that are still in intermediate occupation or are in an occupation with wide availability,” he reported.


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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that the states and cities where there are more demands of beds to serve patients by Covid-19, where it is already at its peak and at the most critical moment of the Covid-19 pandemic are Mexico City; Sinaloa, Villahermosa, Tabasco, as well as Cancun, Quintana Roo and Tijuana, Baja California, for which he asked for the support of society to follow the health recommendations “to continue taming this pandemic.”

“In the case of Mexico City, Cancun, Villahermosa, Sinaloa, even Tijuana, we are already at the peak, at the most crisis, most critical moment, but at the same time according to the projections that we have, we are going down, we are talking about these 10 days. In the case of Mexico City we have enough beds, but we have to go where there is no saturation and wait. ”

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