Tainari88 wrote:It is talking about suspicious cases Kaiser and British patients being positive.
I don't speak Spanish so had to rely on what Google translate produces which says that 63 people have tested positive, 7 are in hospital (including one British patient) and 2 have died:
PRESS RELEASE OF THE YUCATÁN SECRETARIAT OF HEALTH
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Merida, Yucatan, April 4, 2020.-
Since the contingency began and until today, Saturday, April 4, the following have been detected in Yucatan:
364 suspected cases.
Of which:
63 cases have tested positive; 2 unfortunately passed away.
63 are still under study and
238 cases have already been ruled out.
Of the confirmed cases, 43 have already recovered: they do not present symptoms nor can they spread. 12 are stable, isolated in their homes, constantly monitored by SSY medical personnel; have mild symptoms
7 of these confirmed cases are hospitalized and in total isolation. Among them, a British citizen, whose government requested humanitarian aid from Mexico, and who was diagnosed here. The other British passenger who tested positive, but shows mild symptoms, is isolated, as protocols indicate, permanently monitored by medical personnel from the health sector.
Tainari88 wrote:It is strange. The measures they have taken is really strong. Nothing is open. Everyone running into a supermarket has to be ALONE and with mask, gel, handwashing and they are spraying everything down with chlorine. They are in total lockdown and it doesn't make sense that in the Johns Hopkins map? The entire region is in gray only and no red. Rumors in hospitals say there is almost no cases. I am trying to figure it out?
They only show number of cases at the country level (except it seems for the US, Canada and China), so I'd expect the above numbers will be included in their figures for Mexico.
As far as I can tell, many developing countries have moved into partial or full lock down relatively early. In a case like this, you don't really want to wait until hospitals get many patients, much less until they feel the strain. While it's hard to say if it will be successful, nipping this in the bud early in the epidemic is definitely worth a try.