Mexico City: Mexico enters the third wave of the Pandemic Coronavirus, because infection rose 29% compared to the previous week.
But the State Health Department said on Friday growth mostly came from infection among younger and less vulnerable people.
The case number is now as high as the beginning of the last surge in September; The wave peaked in January and continued to decline until June.
But at this time only around 22% of the country’s hospital bed was occupied; Hospital beds in many parts of the country are basically charged with the last wave.
Authorities say the relative decline of serious cases among parents is the result of the country’s vaccination campaign, which on Friday has given at least one dose to around 39% of all adults.
Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said the increase in infection was not due to the arrival of the Delta variant, but more for increasing public activities.
Mexico City Health Authority said they expected the third wave to peak in August in the capital, which was the worst by Covid-19 in two previous waves.
Mexico has suffered nearly 235,000 deaths confirmed by the test, but because the country did a little testing, government figures for excess deaths showed that the true victims were around 360,000 deaths.