The Ministry of Health reported this Friday that Mexico adds 5 million 489 thousand 127 cases and 317 thousand 683 deaths from COVID-19.

In the last 24 hours, the country registered 15,638 cases and 380 deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

With these data, Mexico is the sixteenth country in the world in a number of confirmed infections and is the fifth with the most deaths from this cause, behind the United States, Brazil, India, and Russia, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

On February 10, the country reported 927 deaths, the highest figure during the current fourth wave, driven by the omicron variant since December.

The health authorities recognize that, based on death certificates, the country may be close to 460,000 deaths and they estimate that Mexico actually accumulates 5,763,299 infections.

Of the confirmed infections, there are 58,492 active cases, which have presented symptoms during the last 14 days and account for about 1% of the total.

The average occupancy of general beds in Mexican hospitals stands at 20% and that of intensive care at 14%, with a downward trend.

As of last Monday, half of the 32 states in the country passed a green traffic light due to low epidemic risk, while the other 16 are yellow, due to medium risk.

The person in charge of the pandemic in the country, Hugo López-Gatell, affirmed this Tuesday that the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico has now reached four weeks with “reductions in epidemic intensity” and “very substantial” advances in vaccination coverage.

Vaccination plan against COVID-19 in Mexico

The authorities also indicated that within the vaccination program more than 180.7 million doses have been administered, adding 638,089 during the last day.

The Government of Mexico states that it is the ninth country that has applied the most doses in absolute numbers.

Of the 126 million inhabitants, just over 85 million Mexicans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, with which 90% of the population aged 18 and over has received at least one application.

Meanwhile, 78.8 million have completed their vaccination schedule