Cruz Azul fans enter the Azteca Stadium after 14 months of not receiving public.
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After suffering one of the outbreaks of coronavirus most lethal in the world, Mexico is witnessing a significant decrease in deaths from COVID – 19 and the vaccination campaign that Biden drives in the United States could be one of the reasons, as stated by Mexican scientists and authorities to The Washington Post .
Deaths confirmed by COVID – 19 , the disease caused by the coronavirus , have collapsed more than 85% since January, when a brutal second wave swept the country.
Mexico City, the epicenter of the outbreak in the country, disabled the maximum alert this month for the first time in a year. Authorities say the coronavirus alert of the capital could soon change from yellow to green, that is, from medium to low risk.
The steep decline in cases has brought relief to exhausted hospital workers and somewhat normality to a beaten nation.
And the signs of reopening begin.
The Azteca Stadium in the capital was opened to fans for the first time in 14 months, over the weekend. Thousands attended a couple of quarterfinal matches in the Liga MX soccer league.
Scientists and government officials from Mexico say that the pandemic appears to be declining, at least temporarily, due to increased immunity levels on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Up to half of the Mexican population has developed antibodies because the coronavirus circulated widely over the past year. Additionally,
Scientists warn that Mexico is far from achieving “herd immunity ”And that the variants could still wreak havoc.
Health officials continue to ask Mexicans to wear masks and observe social distance. Still, for a country that has suffered at least 330. 02 deaths from COVID- 19 , according to official estimates, the recent decline offers hope.
The decrease in new cases during 15 weeks is “very encouraging,” he told The Washington Post Hugo López-Gatell, the Mexican government’s coronavirus czar. He said a third wave of infections could not be ruled out. But if both the United States and Mexico reach high levels of immunity, “that would make it unlikely that a local outbreak would cause a change in the national trend.”
The The main reason for the decline in cases appears to be that many Mexicans have been exposed to the coronavirus, considered López-Gatell.
A national government study found that the 25% of participants tested positive for antibodies between August and November of . Then came the peak of infections in the Christmas season, the most intense of the pandemic. Now, the Ministry of Health estimates that at least the 50% of Mexicans have immunity, mainly because they have been infected, said López-Gatell.
There may be another intriguing factor .
Malaquías López-Cervantes, Professor of Public Health at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , nicknamed him the “Biden wall”.
And it is because with almost half of the United States population vaccinated with at least one dose of COVID vaccine –
– , fewer infections are being transmitted to Mexico. “The transfer of contagion across the border was very high,” López-Cervantes told The Washington Post.
