Which states have they reached first in Mexico? – The financial

Mexico has been facing diseases that have spread globally for almost two and a half years. In 2019 the first case of COVID was reported in the world, and in the first months of 2020 The first contagion in the country had already been known. Other diseases that have been striking worldwide have also had a presence, and their arrival is through the big cities.

Nuevo León and Mexico City have been the pioneers Regarding the variants of COVID, as well as the first registered cases of diseases that during 2022 have alarmed different countries, such is the case of monkeypox and acute childhood hepatitis.

For the most part, these early cases have been reported by people who were outside the country and they were in other nations that already had infected.

Now, while Mexico is experiencing its fifth wave of COVID infections driven by the subvariants of omicron BA.4 and BA.5, and in the face of fear by the scientific community by the possible spread of the Centaurus variant We are wondering:

In which states of Mexico has COVID and other diseases arrived first?

COVID-19

The first case of COVID-19 in was reported on February 28 in Mexico City by the Ministry of Health. It was a 35-year-old man who had previously traveled to Italy.

Delta variant of COVID-19

One year and almost four months after the first case of COVID, the Delta variant arrived in Mexico. On June 25, 2021 the first case occurred in Nuevo Leónn of this type of virus that, according to scientists, was more contagious than the first strain.

Omicron

A few days after the first infections were registered in the world and the World Health Organization warned of its rapid contagion, the variant ómicron arrived on December 3, 2021 in Mexico City. The first infected with this variant in the country was a 51-year-old man of South African origin.