Information from Press Conferences and Official Media

Federal Information

(January 27, 2021)

Health Secretary

- The Ministry of Health reported a 22 percent increase in the number of estimated cases of COVID-19, compared to the previous week. compared to the previous week. It currently estimates 302,473 active cases of Coronavirus in the country.

- It is also reported that 76.7 million people are fully vaccinated, representing 93% of Mexico's adult population. of the adult population in Mexico.

State Information

(January 27, 2021)

Health Secretary

- Although the State Health Secretariat informed that Nuevo Leon has changed to an orange traffic light after presenting 5 of its 10 indicators in red, restrictions will remain unchanged. red, the restrictions will remain unchanged, being 50% in all areas except for massive events and nightclubs, where it will be 30%. where it will be 30%.

- During the last week, the omicron variant was detected in 98% of the confirmed cases of COVID in the state, displacing the delta variant as the most predominant.

- The Secretary of Health, Alma Marroquin, pointed out that despite the fact that the 24 to 45 age group is the one most affected by the infections, it has the lowest vaccination coverage. affected by infections, it is the one with the lowest vaccination coverage.

- The Ministry of Health reports that, although there are close to 1,000 hospitalizations due to Coronavirus, 25% of them are coincident, which means that the patients were hospitalized for other conditions not related to COVID-19.

- A reduction in the percentage of state medical personnel infected with COVID-19 from 14% to 12% was reported.

- By the end of January 25, 7.9 million vaccines against COVID-19 had been administered in Nuevo Leon.

Number of cases

World News

- WHO records a record 21 million cases in one week . The world world recorded 21 million new cases of Covid last week, a record for the entire in the entire pandemic, although deaths did not rise, WHO said. https://bit.ly/3u2k5vj

- J&J expects 46% increase in vaccine sales in 2022. J&J estimated revenues of between $3 billion and $3.5 billion dollars for its Covid vaccine this year, up from $2.39 billion dollars this year, above the $2.39 billion dollars it generated in 2021. https://bit.ly/3IIdDxI

- Ideal conditions exist for more COVID variants: WHO. The director general of the Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Ghebreyesus, warned that conditions remain ideal for more variants of the coronavirus to emerge. for more variants of the coronavirus to emerge and that it is dangerous to assume that "we are at the end of the game. "we are at the end of the game." https://bit.ly/3L0zeU2