Francisco Cordova / The Journal
Tuesday, January 03, 2023 | 15:39
The Ministry of Health registered a total of 71 covid infections only in the city of Chihuahua in this first report of the year that runs from last Thursday, December 29 to this January 3. At the state level, there were 218 confirmed cases and two deaths in the municipality of Juárez.
Due to the foregoing and since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health registered an accumulated number of 183,450 (+218) confirmed cases, and 312 cases due to the onset of symptoms. The record of people who have lost their lives due to this condition amounted to 10,206, with the aforementioned deaths.
As of the last report, the number of confirmed cases with this condition amounted to 183 thousand 450 (+218), which correspond to the municipalities of Juárez (+87), Chihuahua (+71), Parral (+5), Cuauhtémoc (+4), Delicias (+15), Nuevo Casas Grandes (+2), Ojinaga (+18), Camargo (+3), Jiménez (+1), Meoqui (+2) and Saucillo (+1).
Also, in the municipalities of Aldama (+1), Buenaventura (+3), Rosales (+2), Casas Grandes (+1), Urique (+1) and San Francisco del Oro (+1).
The new registered cases are placed in each epidemiological week according to the onset of symptoms, so that in week 51 312 cases have been registered, which represents a decrease of 36.2 percent compared to epidemiological week 50.
The state of Chihuahua is placed in the 27th position of active cases in the country, for which it presents an incidence rate of the last 14 days, of 10.6 active cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
For this Tuesday, a total of 26 patients are hospitalized due to this disease, of which 23 are in general care areas for COVID-19, which represents 44.62 percent of the spaces enabled in this area, and 3 patients are intubated. , which corresponds to an occupation of 3.41 percent of the beds assigned to the intensive care area.
The Ministry of Health urged the population to continue applying prevention measures for their daily activities, so that the proper and responsible use of face masks is recommended for those who belong to a vulnerable group and people who do not have their COVID vaccination scheme. -19 full or who have not received any dose.
