All of Mexico at low risk for coronavirus, health ministry says

SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Son. – For the first time in two years, all of Mexico is officially at low risk for COVID-19.

That’s according to Mexico’s federal Ministry of Health, which this week designated each of the nation’s 32 states in the green, or low-risk level, on the color-coded scale used by the ministry to measure the incidence of coronavirus around the nation.

The new designation comes after the ministry recorded a 38% drop in the number of new cases for the week of March 14, as well as a 97% drop in COVID-19-related hospitalizations since January, 2021, when the number of hospitalized people in Mexico peaked.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Mexico has recorded a total of 5.6 million confirmed cases and 336,223 deaths attributed to the virus.

Close to Yuma County, San Luis Rio Colorado, Son., has been classified at the low-risk level for four consecutive weeks. The border city recorded 10 new cases but no coronavirus deaths last week.

Since the start of the pandemic, the city has tallied 7,727 cases of the virus and 776 deaths associated with the pandemic.

Baja California, bordering California, was classified at high risk for the coronavirus throughout most of the pandemic, but was lowered to a green rating recently.

The state has tallied 131,461 cases and 12,180 deaths over the course of the pandemic. Mexicali, the state’s capital, has recorded a total of 47,011 cases and 4,339 deaths.

The health ministry said in a news release it has given 188 million vaccinations to 85 million Mexicans, 93% of whom, the ministry says, have received both doses.