Methods that could counteract covid-19 2:04
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According to this Monday's report from the Ministry of Health, since last February 28 - when the first case of covid-19 was reported in Mexico - 972,785 infections and 95,225 deaths have been registered.
Despite this, the Secretary of Health of Mexico, Jorge Alcocer, said Tuesday that there is control of the epidemic.
"There were some days or weeks when this became a little more complicated, but we are already on that path, downward," said the official.
However, the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López Gatell, pointed out that the epidemic continues to be active "with some increases in the number of daily cases and then periods of reduction."
According to the cases of the last 14 days, López Gatell pointed out, the states with the highest epidemic intensity are Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Coahuila and Nuevo León, along with Querétaro and Mexico City.
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“Mexico City is an area of very difficult epidemic control, we have highlighted it.
The most difficult…, almost a quarter of the Mexican population resides in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, and that makes epidemic control more difficult.
The higher the population density, the larger the population and the greater the mobility of people, the more complicated it becomes, ”said López Gatell.
For this reason - the official detailed - the Head of Government of the country's capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, has adopted several of the actions that, even with an orange traffic light, could correspond to a red traffic light.
Mexico begins experimental tests of the vaccine against covid-19 CanSino
This Tuesday, the Mexican government informed through the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, that phase 3 of trials of the Chinese CanSino vaccine project began in Guerrero and Oaxaca.
"They will be carried out with 12,000 and 15,000 Mexican volunteers, over 18 years of age, in 20 centers and this will include between 10 and 14 states of the Republic," he indicated.
In addition, the Mexican foreign minister recalled, the country signed an agreement with the biopharmaceutical companies Pfizer-BioNTecht on October 12.
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Ebrard also referred to the AstraZeneca vaccine and the University of Oxford, since an agreement was also signed to carry out the final phase in Mexico, as well as the packaging and distribution for all of Latin America.
Regarding the Moderna vaccine, the foreign minister said that they have already made a proposal to Mexico and are exploring with them the steps to follow.
This as with the Russian vaccine, Sputnik, with which it is also expected to start phase 3.
The vaccine presented by Janssen has already authorized its phase 3 in Mexico, according to Ebrard.
Meanwhile, Novavax, from the United States, presented its file to the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks on November 2 to begin the same stage.
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