Alert in Mexico for the fifth wave of COVID and the explosion of cases in a week

Mexico is preparing for the fifth wave of coronavirus and health authorities have assured that the virus will remain “forever” in the country and will have different waves in the seasonal phases.

The Mexican Ministry of Health has announced that the technical reports on the pandemic, weekly from April, will again be daily, as There were 18,539 new infections and 146 deaths.

Given the peak of infections in the last few daysthe health authorities have ensured that “the endemic state is not the end of the epidemic “, This was stated by Hugo López Gatell, undersecretary for health promotion and prevention in Mexico, during the morning press conference.

Gatell added that “there was a lot of confusion (…) some notes and commentators said that by decree we had declared that the epidemic is overWe never said it’s over. “

The coronavirus situation in Mexico that worries the authorities

According to the latest weekly report there was 1,684 infections per dayand to date there are nine entities in which there has been a greater growth in the number of cases: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Campeche, Mexico City, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Sinaloa and Yucatán.

While in Baja California Sur, Colima, Durango, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo and Veracruz, there was also an increase.

The response of the authorities to the resumption of coronavirus cases

The Ministry of Health highlighted that, despite there is a growth trend in infections at a national level, It had no impact on deaths or hospitalizations, where the latter are at 3% occupancy for general beds and 1% with a mechanical fan.

López Gatell explained that despite advances in vaccination, which exceed 80% in the adult population, it is expected that the pandemic “remains forever”, but in a state of less damage, albeit greater transmissibility.

“This is what will happen. there will begin to be waves that will increasingly enter a seasonal phase”Added the Secretary of Health.

Gatell also assured that what they have said, as well as what European nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) and various countries are saying, “the emerging situation of the epidemic no longer exists “, he declared.

In the last week, the country has accumulated 18,539 new infections from COVIDin addition to 146 new deaths, while last week it had recorded 12,265 new cases and 89 deaths.

Given this scenario, López-Gatell reminded the audience of it “The fifth wave is part of the transition process from the pandemic to the endemic state of the virus.

In this sense, “The good news is that it goes from being a highly damaging and virulent disease that causes severe illness and death to a disease with few capabilities. to cause greater damage and greater transmissibility, ”the official stressed.

And he said there will start to be waves that more and more will enter a seasonal phase, “most likely between October and March,” he said..

Mexico has so far 5,789,401 cases and a total of 325,000 deaths.

With these figures, Mexico is the twenty-first country in the world for the number of confirmed infections and is the fifth with the highest number of deaths from this cause. behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.