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Baja California begins the day with 45 patients intubated by COVID-19

Hospital occupancy is 13% while a month ago it was 38%.

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As part of his daily report, the Secretary of Health, Alonso Perez Rico, informed that hospital occupancy for COVID-19 in Baja California went from 38.75% to 13.13% in one month.

Currently, 45 patients are intubated and 76 more are hospitalized after being confirmed with coronavirus.

According to Perez Rico, the state has 818 beds available and 239 ventilators to continue facing the pandemic, which has caused the infection of 43 thousand 795 Baja Californians, and 7 thousand 460 unfortunate deaths.

Despite the fact that the state will turn to yellow traffic light on Monday, March 8, the virus is still present in the region, after reporting 54 new cases and 59 deaths in the last 24 hours. It is worth mentioning that of the latter, the Secretary explained that 29 correspond to December 2020, but were recently confirmed by the Epidemiological Surveillance Jurisdictional Committee (COJUVE) as deaths due to COVID-19.

As of this Saturday, 491 cases are still active, of which 254 are located in Tijuana, 106 in Mexicali, 53 in Ensenada, 37 in San Quintin, 19 in Tecate, 18 in Rosarito and four in San Felipe.


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