The Effective Reproduction Rate (ER) continues to indicate that one person with COVID-19 can infect two more in Baja California, being 1.05; a rate that is registered in most municipalities.

On this point, the head of the Secretariat of Health of the State, Alonso Perez Rico, mentioned that if the tendencies continue to rise and infections increase, in three weeks severe restrictions could begin in the State.

"Now we have the great opportunity to be preventive in transmission chains, to preserve our health, to stay in yellow; if we do not take care of it right now in three weeks we will not be able to take care of it, in three weeks massive severe restrictions will start if the trend continues and if the third wave arrives with this type of numbers that we have right now", he assured.

In the last 24 hours, 65 new cases and 3 more deaths were registered in the State, due to this disease. This brings to 47 thousand and 8 Baja Californians who have tested positive, and 7 thousand 949 who have died, so far in the pandemic.

And although the hospital occupancy rate for COVID-19 in the State is 24.7%, there are still 319 active cases, most of them concentrated in Mexicali with 186, a municipality that also has the highest incidence of these cases (per 100,000 inhabitants) in the region.

Even in comparison with neighboring localities in the United States such as Imperial, San Diego and Yuma, where their incidence for COVID-19 is 12, 5.50 and 4.70 respectively; Mexicali has the highest incidence at 17.70, according to the report presented this morning by Perez Rico. The rest of the active cases in Baja California are located in Tijuana with 97, Ensenada with 23, San Felipe with five, San Quintin with four, Rosarito with three and Tecate with one.

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