Mexico posted a document spike in coronavirus instances on Friday, with 21,366 newly confirmed infections, about double the each day fee of enhance only a week in the past. The nation additionally recorded 1,106 extra deaths.
It was unclear if the spike was as a result of presence of the UK virus variant, of which just one case has up to now been confirmed in a visiting British citizen.
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The nation has now seen virtually 1.61 million whole infections and has seen registered over 139,000 deaths up to now within the pandemic.
The nation’s extraordinarily low testing fee means that’s an undercount, and official estimates counsel the true dying toll is nearer to 195,000. So little testing is completed that eight p.c of all those that received a check later died throughout current weeks; usually, solely individuals with extreme signs are examined.
Teams vaccinating frontline well being care staff administered about 59,000 pictures on Friday, carry the whole up to now to over 415,000. The numbers are nonetheless insufficient for the 750,000 frontline well being care staff, every of whom would require two doses.
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In Mexico City, the present middle of the pandemic in Mexico, 90 p.c per cent of hospital beds are full.
Mexico has pinned a lot of its hopes on cheaper, easier-to-handle vaccines made by China’s CanSino. But that vaccine has not but been authorized to be used.
The nation has additionally expressed curiosity in getting the AstraZeneca vaccine and the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
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Last Update: Saturday, 16 January 2021 KSA 07:04 – GMT 04:04
