COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
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| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Mexico |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | Mexico City and Los Mochis |
| Arrival date | February 28, 2020 (4 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 2 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 7,709,747 |
| Recovered | 7,374,572 |
Deaths | 335,011 |
| Fatality rate | 4.35% |
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The virus was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020. However, the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) reported two cases of COVID-19 in mid-January 2020 in the states of Nayarit and Tabasco, with one case per state.
The Secretariat of Health, through the "Programa Centinela" (Spanish for "Sentinel Program"), estimated in mid-July 2020 that there were more than 2,875,734 cases in Mexico because they were considering the total number of cases confirmed as just a statistical sample.