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Mexico: COVID-19 infections increase to one million 978 thousand 954

With one thousand 323 deaths confirmed in 24 hours, mortality rate increased to 8.7%.

This Friday, the number of COVID-19 infections reached one million 978 and 954, while deaths rose to 172 thousand 577, confirming 10 thousand 388 cases and one thousand 323 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate went from 8.6 to 8.7%, setting a new time record in the rise of this parameter, since at the beginning of the year, the percentage remained at 8.4, a couple of weeks later it increased to 8.5, while it was on February 7 that this figure went to 8.6, which was surpassed in less than a week.

Even with the registration of new cases as well as new deaths caused by the SARS Cov-2 virus, government authorities announced a decrease in COVID-19 infections in several states, 9 states will go from red to orange next week, leaving only Guanajuato and Guerrero as the only Mexican regions in red.

It was also reported that Chiapas will return to the long-awaited green color, being the only state in that color, leaving the country's epidemiological traffic light in 21 states in orange, eight in yellow and only two in red. The following is the list of the states and the traffic lights in which they remain:

Red Traffic Light: Guanajuato and Guerrero.

Orange Traffic Light: Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Mexico City, Coahuila, Colima, Mexico State, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán and Zacatecas.

Yellow Traffic Light: Baja California, Campeche, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco and Tamaulipas.

Green Traffic Light: Chiapas

The Mexican Republic continues to rank number 3 on the list of nations with the most confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, the United States continues to lead the list with 480 thousand 567, followed by Brazil in second place with 237 thousand 489 deaths so far in the pandemic.


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