The Federal Ministry of Health reported 535 new deaths on April 17, bringing the total number of deaths to 212,228. In addition, 4,157 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were registered, bringing the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 2,304,096.
During the daily press conference to report on the progress of the pandemic in Mexico, Dr. Christian Arturo Zaragoza Jiménez, director of Epidemiological Information, detailed that the curve of cases estimated at the national level for the current epidemiological week presented a decrease of 11%.
