Mexico City, January 8.- Amid the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, Mexico surpassed 300,000 deaths from the disease yesterday , and nine states will move down the epidemiological risk level starting Monday, three of which will move to orange, according to the Ministry of Health.
Chihuahua, which was yellow in recent weeks, and Baja California Sur and Tamaulipas, which were green, will move to orange, or high risk, according to the traffic light published by the federal agency and which will be in effect from January 10 to 23.
Sinaloa, Colima, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo, which were in green, will move to yellow, or medium risk , while Baja California , Aguascalientes, and Sonora, which were already in yellow, will remain in that category . The rest of the country, including Mexico City, will remain in green.
Thus, three entities will be orange, ten will be yellow, 19 will be green, and none will be red, according to the document.
Meanwhile, 28,023 new cases of the disease were confirmed in 24 hours, meaning that infections continue to rise rapidly. In total, 4,083,118 cases have been confirmed since March 2020.
In addition, 168 new deaths were reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 300,101 since the start of the health crisis. Meanwhile, during the epidemic, 3,330,210 people have recovered from the disease.
It was reported that there are 128,929 people with symptoms in the country , that is, about 25,000 more than Thursday and almost 50,000 more than Wednesday.
Hospital occupancy rates remain unchanged at 19 percent for general beds and 12 percent for ventilator beds.
On Thursday, 669,025 COVID-19 vaccines were administered, bringing the total number of doses administered since December 2020 to 150,778,213.
