Despite these figures, the Mexican government maintains that the epidemic has been under control and on the decline for three weeks, but this Friday the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the epidemic in the country may be underestimated.
“Most likely, the epidemic in Mexico is underestimated, the tests are limited to 3 per 100,000 people per day, which can be compared to more than 150 per 100,000 people in the United States,” the director of the WHO Department of Health Emergencies, Mike Ryan.
Today Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, did not respond to the WHO statement, but did report that the loss of smell, taste and diarrhea will be considered symptoms of COVID-19, so it is it will give them more weight when considering a person as suspected of having the disease.
“This week we expanded the definition and included some of the accessory symptoms that we have been commenting on, such as loss of smell, loss of taste, diarrhea and in the new definition it is not required to have at least two accessory conditions, if it is not enough to have one .
“The definition is fever, cough, sore throat, headache and one of the accessory symptoms is enough to consider a suspected case of COVID-19. What is the net consequence of this going to be? At the time of attention, that we detect more people who may have COVID-19, “he said after presenting the report on the progress of the pandemic.
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