First Case Of Coronavirus Confirmed In Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, MX. (THECOUNT) — Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary and health promotion said that the Institute of Respiratory Diseases reported that there was a reactive test, which was pending by the InDRE and was analyzed in the early morning.

The result was positive, so there is already the first case of coronavirus in Mexico, specifically in Mexico City. The case was first reported Friday morning.

“In the Institute of Respiratory Diseases, we detected a new case that during the last hours of the night informed us that there was a reactive test, this was informed at the time via Twitter and we contacted the media. the second test that is confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory, the Indre. This happened, it was a process all night and almost at six in the morning the result came out and it is confirmed, “said López Gatell in conference Press conference with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in the National Palace.

“The individual is in stable conditions, has a mild disease, mild refers to not having pneumonia, has the symptoms similar to a cold, in fact indistinguishable from a cold, has no previous illnesses, is a young individual, so It is very low risk. It was located to its primary contacts, there are five contacts that are also under study. All this family is in isolation in the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, the reason, let’s be very clear, is the epidemiological isolation. from the medical point of view, being hospitalized, “he said, reports CulturaColectiva.

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Geo quick facts: Mexico City is the densely populated, high-altitude capital of Mexico. It’s known for its Templo Mayor (a 13th-century Aztec temple), the baroque Catedral Metropolitana de México of the Spanish conquistadors and the Palacio Nacional, which houses historic murals by Diego Rivera. All of these are situated in and around the Plaza de la Constitución, the massive main square also known as the Zócalo – wikipedia.