We have third week of sustained reduction of the epidemic of COVID-19; President’s press conference
#CiudadDeMéxico. – Act led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from the National Palace. Stenographic version. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s press conference on February 15, 2022
HUGO LÓPEZ-GATELL RAMÍREZ, UNDER SECRETARY FOR HEALTH PREVENTION AND PROMOTION: With your permission, Chairman. Secretary, secretaries, undersecretary, very good morning.
Very good morning to all of you.
We are going to comment on the course of the epidemic and the progress in the vaccination plan against COVID-19.
We are in the third week of sustained and large reduction of the COVID-19 epidemic.
As we commented four weeks ago, we entered a period of stabilization and in the three most recent weeks we have had reductions of over 40 percent, in the most recent week of 48 percent, almost half from the previous week and, as you can see in our weekly aggregation epidemic curve, the intensity of the occurrence of cases, that is, the incidence of new cases is already below what we reached in all previous waves and continues to decline.
Only 1.6 percent of the estimated cases are active cases. This figure was as high as 8.5 or nine at the peak of the epidemic, and at this time it is only…
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