Authorities in the capital affirmed that the Delta variant of Covid-19 is the one that prevails among infections. They’ve only detected one case of Omicron.
Mexico City maintains a downward trend of COVID-19 infections despite the threat of the omicron variant, capital authorities said this Friday.
“We are still in low numbers”, Eduardo Clark, general director of Digital Government of the Mexican capital, said at a press conference.
Although the downward trend is “very slight”, the official mentioned that no improvements have been seen that were recorded in recent weeks, largely because the pandemic has stabilized in the state.
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He specified that in the metropolitan area there was a small decrease of 19 hospitalized, coupled with a reduction in Mexico City of 23 people.
“The hospital admissions continue at historic lows. Although it is not such a clear slope, it maintains a decline of about four weeks, “he said.
However, he clarified that in the case of positivity, yes there has been a slight rebound passing from 2,1 % the week before 2,5 % in the last 7 days.
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The Secretary of Health of the capital, Olivia López Arellano, recognized that in the city the variant delta of covid-19 is the one that prevails and he specified that so far only one case with an omicron variant has been detected, confirmed last week in a person from South Africa.
While there is another case in the metropolitan area and reiterated that they continue to apply tests and monitoring to detect this variant that has spread to other countries rapidly.
Likewise, he urged citizens to continue taking care of yourself and comply with sanitary measures to avoid a spike.
Regarding vaccination, officials highlighted that 30% of older adults have received a booster dose and they hope to close next week with at least half of the inhabitants over 60 vaccinated with a third dose.
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In addition, of its 126 million inhabitants, 87% already have at least one dose of the anticovid vaccine and 66.58 million already have their complete scheme of two applications. (I)
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