Despite the fact that 60 thousand deaths were registered yesterday by Covid-19, “catastrophic figure“, As the undersecretary had called it Hugo Lopez-Gatell, this afternoon the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador He assured that the pandemic – which he described as “unfortunate” – is giving way and that according to data in his possession, the coronavirus is losing strength, so there are fewer infections and “most importantly, fewer deaths.”
In a video broadcast on social networks, the president reiterated that with one hand his administration fight corruption and with the other, the health and economic crisis.
“As for Covid, this miserable pandemic which causes so much damage, because many human beings in the world lose their lives and of course in our country. It hurts a lot and we always have to send our hugs, our condolences, sincere, sincere, to relatives of those who have lost their lives due to the pandemic, and to many here, more than 60 thousand deceased.
“The pandemic is giving way, as shown by the data from recent weeks, it is already losing strength, fewer infections and what is more important, fewer deaths,” he said.
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Since National Palace, the president pointed out that the country has hospital beds Sufficient, since there is an availability of 63% and in terms of beds with a fan, there is a provision of 67%.
“At the beginning, when the pandemic begins, it was our main concern that the hospitals were saturated, now the hospitals destined for Covid have only a general hospitalization occupation of 37% in the country. That is, we have 63% of beds in general hospitals and beds with intensive therapy ventilators, of 10 thousand 587 beds that we were able to install with equipment that have specialized medical staff, of the 10 thousand 587 we have occupied only 33%, so there is an availability of 67% “
President López Obrador recalled that Mexico is registered in five investigation processes to develop the vaccine to face this pandemic, and pointed out that there is “high hope” for the one being developed by the University of Oxford, AstraZeneca, and which Mexico will produce, so there is an economic support of 25 billion pesos for apply it universally and free of charge, once its effectiveness is proven.
“You know, we signed up for various investigations that they are doing to have the vaccine. We are participants in five research processes; however, we have high hopes for the one being carried out by the University of Oxford, AstraZeneca, which is already in its phase three, and it is assured that by November we will have results in Mexico, because it will be manufactured in our country.
“The Carlos Slim Foundation, we are supporting, we have 25 billion pesos available for the vaccine to be applied universally and free of charge, once its effectiveness is proven. So this is good news because it gives us certainty, “he said.
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