A year away, Mexico adds more than 2 million infections by COVID – 19 and more of 185 thousand dead
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It was a year ago, on 28 February 2019, when Mexico confirmed its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
It was about a man from 35 years who had returned from a trip to Italy and was admitted to the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), located in Mexico City.
Second confirmation test, it was an overnight process. The result has already come out and a case of coronavirus is confirmed “, he pointed out at the Friday morning conference 28 February 2020, the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López Gatell
A year away, Mexico adds more than 2 million infections and 185, 1200 dead and is the third country in the world for deaths only behind the United States and Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins University.
When the Aztec country registered the first case, the world began to feel the effects of the pandemic and in Latin America a first case had already been reported a day before in Brazil.
The effects of the pandemic
The economy plummeted 8.2% in 2020 as in other countries in the region, although far from the fall of only 3.5% in the United States.
Mexico was in recession in 2019 when its GDP fell 0.1% , so it will be more complex to overcome. This 2021 is expected to rise between 3% and 5%, around half of the fall of the previous year.
Although the Mexican Government never decreed the mandatory quarantine so as not to affect millions of informal workers, All non-essential activities were closed in April and May.
And with the “New normality” June began a cautious economic opening that has been a roller coaster.
Mexico City was from late December to February with most activities closed again and hospitals on the brink of collapse.
The effects of the pandemic could cause up to ten million new poor people in a country where the 41. 9% of the population already era.
The effects of the pandemic arrive even the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who fell ill with COVID – 19 last 24 from January.
Other members of the presidential cabinet also fell ill with COVID – 19 as Admiral Rafael Ojeda, Secretary of the Navy, who even fell ill for the second time.
Mexico’s actions against the pandemic
The country began its vaccination plan on 24 from December to 2020 and was the first in Latin America to apply the Pfizer vaccine.
The great challenge for Mexico is to achieve vaccinate its entire population by March 2022. It has millions of doses committed to pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, CanSino, Sinovac, Sputnik V or the Covax platform of the World Health Organization (WHO).
A year away, millions of Mexicans have had to adapt to the “New normality” which implies going out with a mask; increase safety and hygiene measures or work from home in the so-called “home office” mode, among other actions.
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