COVID-19. Situation in Mexico / Weekly Review #44

COVID-19 SITUATION IN MEXICO Weekly Review # 44 March 3, 2021

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DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS PER STATE: CONFIRMED CASES: 2,089,281

NEW CASES REPORTED: 2,343

DEATHS: 186,152

ACCUMULATED DEATHS PER DAY

Information updated on March 1, 2021 at 19:00 hrs local time.

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INCREASE OF CONFIRMED CASES SINCE THE FIRST REPORT MAP WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INCIDENCE RATE OF ACCUMULATED CASES OF COVID-19 BY ENTITY OF RESIDENCE.

National rate 1619.94

0 to 500 (1 states)

1,5001 to 2,000 (6 states)

501 to 1,000 (7 states)

>2,000 (6 states)

1,001 to 1,500 (12 states)

Elaborated by Prodensa with information from the Health Ministry of Mexico

CORONAVIRUS IN THE WORLD (COVID-19) • As of March 1, 2021, globally there have been reported confirmed 113,820,168 cases (347,981 new cases) of COVID-19 and 2,527,891 deaths (7,238 new deaths*). Lethal rate: 2.2%.

• In the last 14 days, the number of new cases accounts for 4% (4,977,828) of the total of accumulated cases. *https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200323-sitrep-63-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=d97cb6dd_2

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TOWARDS THE “NEW NORMAL” INCIDENTS OF CONTAGIONS IN THE POPULATION

BY REGION AS OF MARCH 2

DEATH INCIDENTS IN POPULATION

BY REGION AS OF MARCH 2

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TOWARDS THE “NEW NORMAL”

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KEY POINTS OF THE PRESIDENT ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR Morning press conference February 24- March 2, 2020

REFORM TO THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY The President thanked the Congress for the approval of the reform to the Electrical Law. He specified that it is necessary to strengthen the CFE and Pemex to be independent and guarantee that fuel prices do not increase.

COVID-19 VACCINATION The President pointed out that the purpose is to vaccinate everyone and as a priority to finish vaccinating doctors, nurses, health sector workers who are in COVID hospitals. He reported that the 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine has already been applied to 75% of health personnel.

Dr. Jorge Alcocer, Secretary of Health, commented that there is a decrease in the number of cases in recent weeks. He said that vaccination is already influencing the control of the pandemic.

RETURN TO CLASSES Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that it is considering combining the vaccination of older adults with the vaccination of teachers of the entities with green light so that classes can be restarted.

SUPERIOR AUDIT OF THE FEDERATION (ASF) The President said that the ASF was wrong in 75% of the audit accounts of the Texcoco Airport’s cancellation, and he welcomed that the Audit had rectified. In addition, he denied having put pressure on the ASF. He accused the national and international press of making a public mockery of the issue. However, this situation is already being clarified.

MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN President Lopez Obrador commented that Biden’s conversation was one of great respect, friendship, and collaboration. He stressed that several issues were discussed, including immigration. He indicated that the need to regularize Mexicans working in the United States was raised, and, therefore, the issue of work visas was raised. He indicated that they spoke about promoting development in Central America and the south of the country, mentioning that President Biden will allocate 4,000 million dollars for that purpose.

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VACCINATION PROGRESS

As of March 1st, 2021, 2,526,863 doses of vaccines had been applied of 4 different vaccines that had arrived in Mexico (Pfizer BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, and Sputnik V).

From this amount, 567,338 have the complete scheme (2 doses).

In Campeche, 97% of the teachers that were vaccinated had the complete scheme.

Regarding the elderly population, 1,170,453 had been vaccinated with a first dose. As more vaccines arrive in Mexico, more will be vaccinated from this group in the following weeks.

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MEASURES TAKEN

BY STATES IN MEXICO BAJA CALIFORNIA Continuing with Covid-19 cases falling, the State of Baja California is considered as an orange light or high-risk status according to the State´s measures, but as a yellow light or medium risk status according to the Federal Government´s measures. Starting March 2021, hospital occupancy across the State is below 20%, and it was reported that there are 432 total confirmed Covid-19 cases in the State, and 97 hospitalized patients. In state hospitals, it was reported that there are 802 hospital beds available and 222 ventilators available. During the daily conference, Governor Jaime Bonilla declared that he and his staff were very positive that Baja California could soon go into a green light or low-risk status. This could happen as soon as March 15th.

Given the decrease of Covid-19 cases, State Health officials are working on the plan to gradually open schools for in-person attendance, which will begin in the following weeks and will include having 42,000 academic personnel vaccinated in the next couple of weeks. The vaccination campaign is underway, and after focusing on rural communities for the past weeks, starting in March, there will be more vaccines available in urban areas.

SONORA Maintaining the yellow light or medium risk status, the State of Sonora continues to see a decrease in Covid-19 active cases, with 1,054 reported active cases across the State. There were 133 reported hospitalized patients m including 19 with respirators. With no municipalities considered as a maximum risk, including the State Capital of Hermosillo, most activities will see changes in the previous limits, with restaurants and bars now being allowed to serve at 75% capacity and a maximum of 200 people in open spaces. Public events, such as sporting events and concerts, will continue to have no public, but bars, bowling, and casinos are allowed to have 50% capacity. The vaccination campaign is underway and being applied in 59 communities in Sonora. According to the State´s Health Secretary Enrique Clausen, over 28,000 adults over the age of 60 have received either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine. Continuing with news about economic development, Governor Claudia Pavlovich, along with executives from Becton Dickinson, announced the company´s expansion of their Hermosillo facility, which currently employs over 800 people, and this expansion will take the facility to more than 1,500 workers and potentially up to 2,500 with more shifts opening soon. Becton Dickinson manufactures and assembles various medical components in Hermosillo, many of which are vital to the fight against Covid-19.

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BY STATES IN MEXICO COAHUILA One year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lowest hospital occupancy by patients with complications has been recorded in Coahuila. The governor, Miguel Angel Riquelme Solis, announced that among the agreements is to analyze from the National Chamber of the Restaurant and Seasoned Food Industry (CANIRAC) request if the closing hours for restaurants are extended.

The agreements that are going to be analyzed by the government are the following: • Closing time extension, which proposes that the restaurants could close from 24:00 to 01:00 in the morning.

• Bars that have failed to comply with health protocols will be left unopened for 15 days.

• Inspection and verification visits to the various commercial, business, and various types of lines will continue to confirm that health protocols are being complied with.

NUEVO LEON According to the Nuevo Leon Health Secretariat, the federal government would be wasting a COVID-19 vaccine from each vial that reaches the State, representing 20 percent of the content.

The federal brigades of “Servants of the Nation” today apply five doses per bottle, but according to state officials, there is liquid left for a sixth vaccine, which is being thrown away because it is not used. Therefore, according to this accusation, 20 percent of the vaccines would be wasting both in Nuevo Leon and in the country. The State has already requested the federal government to discuss this matter to authorize the use of the sixth vaccine and ask the pharmaceutical companies to send a sixth syringe.

TAMAULIPAS The Tamaulipas Health Secretariat determined a new risk signaling for COVID-19 to the one reported a few hours ago, based on the active coronavirus cases registered in each area of each ​​ municipality. In this sense, he indicated that 22 cities pass a green traffic light, which are: Valle Hermoso, Mendez, San Fernando, Burgos, San Nicolas, Cruillas, Jimenez, Abasolo, Soto la Marina, Villagran, Mainero, Jaumave, Bustamante, Palmillas, Gomez Farias , Ocampo, Nuevo Morelos, Xicotencal, Llera, Casas and some areas of Aldama and Gonzalez.

According to what is established, social, school, and leisure activities can be restarted at a green traffic light. In red, which is the maximum level of high risk of contagion, it is located in 4 cities, Tampico, Madero, Güemez and Tula, and in orange the municipalities of Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, San Carlos, Hidalgo, Reynosa, Altamira, Miquihuana and Mante.

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BY STATES IN MEXICO AGUASCALIENTES With data until March 1, Aguascalientes fell to the sixth position nationwide for the rate of tests applied per 100,000 inhabitants, with 4,799. The coronavirus in Aguascalientes maintains a fatality rate of 11.6%, the fourteenth highest in the country. The entity registers an occupancy of less than 50% in beds for general hospitalization and beds with a ventilator. The SARI network counts 184 hospitalized patients, of which 105 are serious, and 79 are very serious (intubated). Humberto Martinez Guerra, President of the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Canaco Servytur) in Aguascalientes, asserted that there is interest at the national level of the agency to support the distribution and application of the biological to protect the population against the COVID-19. Also, it will carry out a registry among its affiliates throughout the country to know who would be interested in acquiring the doses directly to shorten the population’s immunization times.

JALISCO In 19 municipalities, all programmed people over 60 years of age have already been covered, corresponding to 100 percent of their elderly population: Colotlan, Huejuquilla El Alto, Jilotlan de los Dolores, Tonila, Tuxpan, Atengo, El Arenal, Etzatlan, San Juanito Escobedo, Ejutla, Tonaya, Guachinango, Cihuatlan, Tenamaxtlan, Talpa de Allende, Valle de Juarez, El Grullo, San Gabriel and Mezquitic. According to the federal government’s strategy, the first block to vaccinate older adults, 58,690 vaccines were received, so far have been allocated to 25 municipalities, of six Health Regions in the State, considered vulnerable. The main indicators of COVID-19 in Jalisco continue to decline. The state government reports that, in one week, hospital occupancy fell from 28.8 to 22.7 percent, and the occupancy of beds in Intensive Care units registered a decrease from 45 to 37.7 percent. No region of the State exceeds 35 percent of overall hospital occupancy these days. The state government emphasizes that these figures give health personnel a break and allow maneuver to continue with the economic reactivation.

QUERETARO Due to an administrative adjustment, the COVID vaccine in Queretaro, destined for the municipalities of Toliman, Huimilpan, and Colon, had a delay in its application scheduled to start this March 1, reported the Ministry of Welfare (Sebien). Due to this, Sebien officials recognized that they couldn’t publish a call for the elderly in these municipalities. This is the first confirmed delay since the National Vaccination Plan began in the State. For the first time in two months, the average hospitalization is close to 50%, which will make it possible to reorganize the entire inventory of beds in Queretaro to distribute medical care and resume other ailments.

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BY STATES IN MEXICO GUANAJUATO According to data from Guanajuato’s Minister of Health, in February, infections by COVID-19 were reduced to 50 percent. Likewise, active cases also decreased. Until now, only 10 out of 46 municipalities in Guanajuato have received vaccines against COVID-19 for the elderly. It should be remembered that during the week before last, 41,158 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines were applied in 9 municipalities of the northeast region of the State. For this AstraZeneca vaccine, a second dose is being recommended eight weeks after. New arrivals of coronavirus vaccines are expected to the entity. However, there is still no accurate information that indicates the number of doses that will be received or the municipalities to which they would be directed. Three localities could follow this vaccination strategy: Cueramaro, Manuel Doblado, and Jaral del Progreso. With the arrival of around 800 thousand doses of SINOVAC vaccines last Saturday, their distribution would soon begin throughout the country, including Guanajuato.

STATE OF MEXICO The government recorded 97% progress in the vaccination of senior citizens in 27 rural municipalities. The Secretary of Health of the State of Mexico pointed out that some people did not want to be vaccinated. Therefore the state health department sent the surplus vaccines to five more localities not contemplated in the initial program.

CDMX Authorities indicated that 7,634 COVID-19 vaccines had been administered to Iztacalco, Tlahuac and Xochimilco senior residents. The Digital Agency Director assured that they are certain that the vaccines will be enough for all the elderly population.

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MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY BIDEN’S NEW FOCUS ON VALUE CHAINS, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MEXICO Over the weekend, Mexico offered to participate in strengthening North American value chains.

In a virtual meeting, the proposal was made by Tatiana Clouthier, Secretary of Economy, to the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.

As an example of the needs, according to the Biden administration, the recent shortage of semiconductor chips for automobiles has forced a slowdown in automobile manufacturing plants.

In another case, in recent decades, more than 70% of the production facilitators of active pharmaceutical ingredients supplying the United States have moved overseas.

According to Biden’s order, this will complement ongoing work to secure the supply chains needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Mexico, we are confident, can be part of this larger effort to ensure that we in North America have the supply necessary to ensure that these types of goods are not a problem, but that we can be a supplier of them,” she added.

U.S. GOVERNMENT ASKS MEXICO FOR A FREE ENERGY INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT. Julie J. Chung, Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, called on the Mexican government to maintain a free investment environment.

Chung asked the Mexican government to maintain a free investment environment about the Electricity Industry Law’s modifications that the Chamber of Deputies approved.

In a call with journalists prior to the meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, the official said: “We urge Mexico to listen to shareholders, to listen to private sector companies and to really provide a culture, an atmosphere of free investment and transparency so that companies continue to invest in Mexico.”

The reform, promoted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which has yet to be approved by the Senate, prioritizes government-owned power plants and relegates privately-owned plants that operate with natural gas and renewable energy sources.

U.S. companies have expressed concern about the changes, which they consider a violation of the USMCA. “In addition to harming several U.S.-backed private sector projects in the energy sector, these measures could negatively affect hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. government public energy investments in Mexico,” they warned.

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GOOD NEWS CHINA’S CANSINO SAYS THE FIRST VACCINES PACKAGED IN MEXICO WILL BE READY IN MARCH The first batch of 2 million vaccines from China’s CanSino Biologics Inc., produced in Mexico, will be ready in the second half of March, the company said on Sunday.

Mexico in early February received its first shipment of the active ingredient for the shot, which is being packaged in Queretaro state by Mexican firm Drugmex, CanSino said in a statement.

The company added that it expects to produce 6.9 million doses between March and June and then make 1.2 million shots available per week to fulfill its agreement for 35 million doses this year.

Mexico has so far received Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Sinovac vaccines. It has given the first shot to just over 1.8 million people, or 1.4% of the population.

Source: Reuters

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RECOMMENDATIONS

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FEDERAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRAFFIC LIGHT The federal epidemiological traffic light, in effect from March 1 to 14, does not show any state at the maximum level (red), and the States with a high level (orange) are only eleven out of thirty-two. It is encouraging that the vast majority of the country indicates a medium alert level (yellow), and two states are already painted green. This decrease in the risk level should not imply the relaxation of any measures; on the contrary, precautions must continue. Upon reaching the lowest alert level (green traffic light), all economic activities are allowed to resume. Therefore, mobility and interactions increase, making it even more relevant that protection measures continue and reinforced when possible.

ALVARO GARCIA HR Director

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RECOMMENDATIONS

BENEFITS OF GETTING A COVID-19 VACCINE We understand that some people may be concerned about getting vaccinated now that COVID-19 vaccines are available. While more COVID-19 vaccines are being developed as quickly as possible, routine processes and procedures remain in place to ensure the safety of any vaccine that is authorized or approved for use. Safety is a top priority, and there are many reasons to get vaccinated.

EHS

None of the COVID-19 vaccines contain the live virus that causes COVID-19, so a COVID-19 vaccine cannot make you sick with COVID-19.

COVID-19 vaccination will help keep you from getting COVID-19 • All COVID-19 vaccines currently available have been shown to be highly effective at preventing COVID-19.

• All COVID-19 vaccines that are in development are being carefully evaluated in clinical trials and will be authorized or approved only if they make it substantially less likely you’ll get COVID-19.

• Based on what we know about vaccines for other diseases and early data from clinical trials, experts believe that getting a COVID-19 vaccine may also help keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.

• Getting vaccinated yourself may also protect people around you, particularly people at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.

• Experts continue to conduct more studies about the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the severity of illness from COVID-19, as well as its ability to keep people from spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.

DAVID ANTUNEZ Environmental, Health, and Safety Director.

BASIC PROTECTIVE MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19

1 2 3 4 5 Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for 20 seconds.

When coughing or sneezing, cover your nose and mouth with a disposable tissue or use the inside corner of your arm.

Avoid shaking hands and kissing.

Keep your workspace clean and don't share personal items and utensils.

If you show symptoms of a cold or flu, go to a doctor. Do not self-medicate and inform your supervisor and Human Resources department.

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