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At around 1:40 a.m. on March 13, the Querétaro State Health Secretariat reported through a press release that two other cases were confirmed imported from coronavirus in the state. This dangerously brings the number of confirmed cases closer to two dozen.
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The sick are a 42-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman. Even if both cases were classified as imported, the government agency He did not indicate in which country they were infected.
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Besides them, last March 11 the Ministry of Health (SSa) there was already confirmed two other cases coming from foreign countries in Querétaro.
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Just a day earlier it had been revealed that a 64-year-old woman tested positive for covid-19Therefore, she was isolated at her home so that she could be observed by the doctors.
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The first of the now four cases was in a 43-year-old man residing in Spain but who traveled to Mexico to visit his family. He entered the country through the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) and then he traveled by car to the state of Querétaro.
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These first two sick were isolated, like their relatives, to be able to follow up on the disease.
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More detailed information on the confirmed case of covid-19 in Puebla was released overnight. The Secretary of Health of that state announced that it is a 31-year-old man who went on vacation to Europe, where I land Spanish, Belgian, Dutch and French, places where he possibly contracted the virus.
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At the moment it is isolated, puit is when going to the Institute of Security and Social Services of the Workers to the Service of the Powers of the State of Puebla (ISSSTEEP) where they confirmed that he was indeed suffering from the disease.
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They pointed out that the case that previously had been confirmed of coronavirus in Puebla it was asymptomatic and although there is a risk of symptoms, you do not have the possibility of transmitting Covid-19.
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Although all the infections so far have been imported, in 15 days, Mexico would enter a phase of local contagion of the coronavirus, said the undersecretary of Health, which would lead the country to report hundreds of cases more than the current 18 and take tougher actions to control the outbreak., which has left tens of thousands of infected around the world.
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Once that phase has arrived, massive events and classes in schools or universities could be canceled or restrictedHugo López-Gatell said.
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“In our mathematical modeling we had calculated up to 40 days until we reach the community transmission phase, ”said the authority. However, if we took the experience of the countries of Europe (…) in about 15 days we could be in a community transmission phase“
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Mexico has reported 18 cases of coronavirus infection, all imported. The low number has raised alarms in specialists who have ensured that sampling may not be following proper protocols.
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However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has complied for Mexico and has recognized its organizational strengths acquired in past crisessuch as the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009 and 2010.
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As phase two arrives, Mexican authorities said they do not consider it necessary to restrict flights or close borders, unlike what countries like the United States or several in Central America have done.
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NeverthelessUniversities like the Tecnológico de Monterrey suspended classes on all their campuses on Thursday, an important tourist fair in the southeastern state of Yucatan was postponed and the Concacaf suspended the Champions League.
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