For the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic in February 2020, all 32 of Mexico’s states are in the green (low risk) category in the federal government’s epidemiological traffic-light monitoring system.
The a color-coded mechanism determines what activities are safe to resume and/or with what restrictions are, on a state-by-state basis. The traffic light is updated every two weeks.
This week, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell reported that Covid cases in Mexico fell for the eighth consecutive week, and predicted that transmission of the disease has “reached a point of minimum activity that will last for several weeks.”
Hospitalizations have also decreased dramatically, López-Gatell said, with Covid patients currently filling seven percent of “general” hospital beds, and five percent of ICU beds.
López-Gatell said that 90 percent of Mexico’s population over 18 years of age have been vaccinated.
The minister stressed that there is no way of predicting if or when a fifth Covid wave might hit Mexico. “There is always the possibility that the virus may escape the immune response, that it may be more aggressive and more transmissible.”