The World Health Organization (WHO) The health emergency due to Covid-19 has ended on May 5. In Mexico, the data provided by the INEGI They estimate that 469,722 people have died since the start of the pandemic, a figure higher than that estimated by the Health Secretary.
The year 2021 was the deadliest for the Mexican population, as 238,772 people lost their lives due to the virus SARS-COV2 according to data from the same organization.
It is followed by the year 2020, which had the second highest death toll with 200,270 people losing their lives. Year where there was no vaccine and where the population began to understand the pandemic.
By 2022, with the available vaccines, mentions the specialist Mauricio Rodriguez, Spokesperson for the University Commission for Coronavirus Emergency Care, UNAM, the number of deaths decreased, with a total of 30,680 deaths from January to December of last year. registered by the INEGI due to the virus.
Health authorities and specialists mention that deaths need to be specified in more detail, since in Mexico, the numbers can vary depending on the methodologies used and that on many occasions, the official figures do not take into account the people who die at home and where the cause of death was not adjudicated to Covid-19 although they will be people with chronic pathologies and at greater risk of death from the virus.
These numbers, which are named as suspicious deaths, are often not included in the official statistics.
Globally, the WHO estimates that since the pandemic was declared by Covid-19 From March 11, 2020 to the present, more than 20 million people worldwide have lost their lives.
contrasting figures
At the end of the pandemic, Mexico accumulates more than 400,000 deaths from Covid-19. Photo: Darkroom
So far, the Health Secretary has shared that in Mexico From the start of the pandemic to the last update as of May 7, 333,961 people had died due to Covid-19.
Similar data is from Hopkins University in the United States with a report of 333,188 cases of deaths in its last monitoring done on March 10, 2023, the day the North American university stopped monitoring cases definitively.
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According to data from the specialist, the data that may have the Health Secretary compared to eI INEGI are due to the methodological way of calculating deaths, since INEGI data is based on 5,244 sources, including the Civil Registry, the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) and the Public Ministry, which are later compared with the information of the Health Secretary.
The data of the INEGI show that there are at least 100,000 more deaths compared to the data from the Ministry of Health.
This is not the first time that the Health Secretary It is outdated in data, since in 2021 the Government of Mexico admitted on its website that the number of people due to covid-19 in that year was 321,000 deaths when previously it had reported only 201,000 deaths.
In this way, the WHO ensures that more studies are needed to quantify with greater precision the mortality caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19.
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