COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico

Detected cases of infection by state.

Deaths by State.

The COVID-19 pandemic has occurred in Mexico since late February 2020 as part of the global COVID-19 pandemic that began in China in December 2019. The pandemic affects the novel disease COVID-19 . This is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Coronaviridae group and belongs to the group of respiratory diseases . From March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic.

course

On January 22, 2020, the Secretaría de Salud of Mexico (comparable to a Ministry of Health) issued a statement stating that Mexico was well prepared for the novel coronavirus. On February 28, 2020, the first two cases of infection were confirmed.

In Mexico, the first sick person was released as cured on March 2, a 35-year-old man from Mexico City who had been on a business trip to Italy in mid-February. Mexico counted a total of five cases of infection on March 3, all of which were infected while traveling to Italy. By March 14, the number of confirmed cases of infection in the country rose to 41. Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , announced during a trip to the southwestern state of Guerrero in a published on March 22 on the social media platform Facebook Video: "We will continue life as usual."

As of May 10, 2020, the WHO reported 31,522 confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections and 3,160 deaths from COVID-19 for Mexico. On May 25, 2020, the WHO reported 65,856 infected people and 7,179 deaths.

statistics

Infections

Confirmed infections (cumulative) in Mexico
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Confirmed infections (daily) in Mexico
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Deaths

Confirmed deaths (cumulative) in Mexico
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Confirmed deaths (daily) in Mexico
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Since August 17, 2020, the WHO reports have only been published weekly, but contain additional information (around cases per million inhabitants). The last daily WHO report ( No. 209 , pdf) was published on August 16, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Here are the cases that were reported to the WHO by the Secretaría de Salud. Since this is a very dynamic situation, there may be discrepancies or delays between the cases of the WHO and the data from the Secretaría de Salud and the information provided by other bodies, such as the Johns Hopkins University (CSSE).

Testing

For financial reasons, Mexico refrains from extensive tests and therefore recorded the third highest death rate in the world at 11.9 percent in mid-August 2020 after Italy (14.5 percent) and Great Britain (14 percent). As of July 25, 2020, only 6.04 tests per 1,000 inhabitants were carried out, compared to 147.42 in the neighboring USA and 88.55 in Germany.

Social consequences

crime

Attacks on health workers have occurred in connection with the pandemic. From mid-March to early May 2020, the state anti-discrimination agency in Mexico counted more than 40 attacks, some of them serious, on health workers. It is said that the attackers see doctors and nurses as supposed carriers of the virus. In response to the crime, some hospitals are guarded by state security forces. In April 2020 alone, 337 women were allegedly murdered in Mexico, the highest number since 2015, when statistics began to be recorded. Presumably 70 were victims of femicide (compare feminicides in Ciudad Juárez ).

Protests by workers

In the factories called maquiladoras on the border with the United States , violations of prevention regulations as well as increased infection and death rates led to protests by affected workers. The locations, some of which continued to operate under diplomatic pressure, led to tensions between the local decision-makers.

See also

• List of epidemics and pandemics
• List of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic

Web links

Commons : COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico  - Image Collection

• Special website of the Mexican government
• World Health Organization (WHO): Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports on the website www.who.int (English)
• Johns Hopkins CSSE : Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases. (English)
• Website World of Meters : real-time data of the Corona virus pandemic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pulmonologists on the net: Covid-19: Causes . Online at www.lungenaerzte-im-netz.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
2. ↑ Tagesschau: "Deeply worried". WHO speaks of corona pandemic . March 11, 2020. Online at www.tagesschau.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
3. ↑ José Pablo Espíndola: EL NUEVO VIRUS CORONAVIRUS NO REPRESENTA UN PELIGRO PARA MÉXICO. In: reporteindigo.com. March 22, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 . 
4. ↑ 015. Acciones de preparación y respuesta ante nuevo coronavirus (2019- nCoV) para la protección de la salud en México. Secretaría de Salud México, March 22, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Mexico Confirms Its First 2 Coronavirus Cases - CBS Los Angeles. In: losangeles.cbslocal.com. Retrieved April 4, 2020 . 
6. ↑ José Pablo Criales: México da de alta al primer paciente al que detectó coronavirus. In: El País. March 3, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 (Spanish). 
7. ↑ México llega a 41 casos confirmados de coronavirus, con 155 casos sospechosos , politica.expansion.mx, March 14, 2020
8. ↑ Alex Ward: AMLO, Mexico's coronavirus-skeptical president is setting up his country for a health crisis. In: vox.com. March 28, 2020, accessed April 14, 2020 . 
9. ↑ David Agren: Coronavirus advice from Mexico's president: 'Live life as usual'. In: theguardian.com. March 25, 2020, accessed April 14, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Situation reports. In: who.int. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Sandra Weiss: Dealing with the pandemic. Mexico's Confused Fight Against COVID-19. Deutsche Welle , August 18, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Corona cases: Mexico in 6th place - President questions masks. Onvista , July 25, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Sonja Peteranderl, Mexico: Corona crisis in Mexico: Attacks on nursing staff and helpers. In: Der Spiegel . May 6, 2020, accessed May 31, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Announcement: Since the beginning of the recording: Number of murdered women in Mexico reaches a sad record. In: Merkur.de . May 26, 2020, accessed on May 31, 2020 (there is also a link to official statistics).
15. ↑ Sandra Weiss: Corona crisis. Companies in Mexico ignore corona requirements - even under US pressure. In: DW.com. German wave. Public Law Institution, April 29, 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020 .