According to the weekly reports of the Ministry of Health (SSa), in one week Covid cases have increased by 138 percent. Since during the week of November 4, they registered 2,310 infections, and there were 5,504 reported in the last week.
The number of deceased have increased in a week, with 13 deaths registered during the week of November 4, and 38 deaths from the disease were registered last week.
The last week that a similar figure was recorded was October 11, 2022, since the SSa reported that in that period there were 6,471 infections and 70 deaths from Covid-19.
Yesterday, Arturo Erdély, a statesman from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), reported on his official Twitter account that there is a rebound in Covid-19 cases nationwide.
“The rebound of the epidemic at the national level is confirmed because the effective reproduction number (Rt = 1.34) is already clearly higher than 1.0 and with an upward trend,” he wrote.
In Mexico, the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 subvariants have been reported, called “Hellhound” and have greater transmissibility compared to previous strains, up to 30% more.
According to experts, these will increase at the end of November and the beginning of December.
The origin of this nickname has emerged on social networks, some Internet users have dubbed it “hellhound”, referring to the pet of Hades, the god of Greek mythology who guards the gates of the underworld.
The expert Cornelius Römer, a scientist at the University of Basel, warned in early October on his Twitter account that BQ.1.1 “will drive a wave of variants in Europe and North America before the end of November” and assures that it will be one of the most contagious so far.
According to health authorities, including the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, the Mexican Social Security Institute, the Nuevo León State Public Health Laboratory, the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, the National Institute of Medicine Genomics and the Yucatan Medical Research Unit, cases have been reported in Mexico City, Nuevo Leon, Baja California, the State of Mexico, Yucatan, and Chiapas.
