The Ministry of Health updated the epidemic traffic light for COVID, where Aguascalientes is the only state that returned to red, due to registering a maximum risk.
Nine more entities were placed in orange (high risk): Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nuevo León and Quintana Roo.
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Meanwhile, the State of Mexico, Mexico City, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Morelos and Yucatán are at moderate risk, yellow color of the traffic light.
Epidemic risk traffic lightFrom January 24 to February 6, 2022
Until now, 12 entities maintain low risk: Nayarit, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Tabasco and Campeche.
The epidemic traffic light will apply from this January 24, until February 6.
This Friday, the Ministry of Health also identified 49,906 recent cases of COVID in Mexico, for a cumulative total of 4,595,589 infections, since the start of the pandemic.
According to the daily technical report, the trend of cases increased by 160%, in the first week of 2022.
In addition, they confirmed 331 more deaths from COVID, so there are at least 302,721 officially recognized deaths.