Mexico City to remain on green COVID-19 alert

Currently, a total of 976,347 people in Mexico City have been infected by COVID-19 since the first positive result, according to the latest official data as of November 12.

Mexico City to remain on green COVID-19 alert
COVID-19 in Mexico City. Authorities urge the population in Mexico City to maintain established sanitary measures. Image by Klaus Hausmann on Pixabay

Currently, a total of 976,347 people in Mexico City have been infected by COVID-19 since the first positive result, according to the latest official data as of November 12. In total, 39,992 people have died as a result of the new coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic and on the last day, no new deaths have been reported in the territory.

The new coronavirus has already left 3,838,308 cases of infection in Mexico, with 1,277,251 of them currently active and 290,630 deaths, according to the latest data as of November 12. In addition, a total of 2,270,427 people have already recovered since the first infection in the country.

The regions of Mexico that are being most affected by the spread of the coronavirus are Mexico City, with 976,347 infections and 39,992 deaths, the most affected region in the country at the moment. The state of Mexico, with 376,227 infections and 44,080 deaths. Nuevo León, with 205,184 infections and 13,092 deaths.

Mexico City stays in the green light: the city is at its lowest point of hospitalizations by COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

Mexico City will remain in the green light for at least two more weeks due to the drop in COVID-19 cases. In fact, according to official data from the city government, right now the capital is at a historic low in cases and hospitalizations, with numbers lower than those of last June and July, before the upturn of the third wave.

Besides hospitalizations, active cases are also at an all-time low since the first wave according to official city government figures. The declines are across all age groups. There is a third item with an all-time low and that is positivity. Right now the positivity rate is 2.9%, the lowest since the pandemic began. The positivity rate has been decreasing week by week since the beginning of October and a few weeks ago it was below 5%, the previous figure that was a historic low between May and June 2021.