COVID Stats

As of today Zihuatanejo has registered a cumulative total of 1,523 confirmed cases of Covid-19 (same as yesterday), 119 that have resulted in fatalities, 13 that are active, and approximately 1,291 that have recovered.

Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on the local COVID situation. We're all feeling COVID stats fatigue, but those of us who haven't yet decided whether to travel or not are still interested.

The fatality rate reported for Zihua, at 7.8%, is high in comparison to other jurisdictions, (but lower than that reported for Mexico as a whole).
Using today's numbers from the website worldometers.info, fatalities as a percentage of total reported COVID cases are:
USA 1.96%
Canada 3.18%
Mexico 9.51%
World 2.31%
Zihua 7.81%

This wide range may simply reflect different reporting procedures, which would be a bit comforting. But they could just as well reflect a significantly wider range of success in the treatment of COVID, which is less comforting.

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