The hospital occupation registered until this Wednesday by COVID-19 is 74.64 percent, with 235 beds and 132 ventilators available, and a total of 588 patients hospitalized because of this disease, as well as 208 intubated.

According to the head of the Ministry of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, the hospital occupancy rate in hospitals that attend patients with COVID-19 is 80.16 percent, registering 298 hospitalized patients and 74 with a ventilator until this morning. "In Tijuana we have more hospitalized patients than all of Mexicali and Ensenada combined," he said.

This is due to the fact that Tijuana's General Hospital registers 171 hospitalized patients, while Mexicali's General Hospital Zone 30 has 55 and Ensenada's General Hospital 71.

Of the intubated patients, this hospital in the border city reports 35, following the one in Mexicali with 30 and the one in Ensenada with nine. In the case of the hospitals of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) located in Baja California and that also receive cases of coronavirus, these have an overall occupation of 69.11 percent.

Of the ones mentioned before, the General Hospital of Zone 30 in Mexicali and the Regional General Hospital 1 in Tijuana are the ones that have the most COVID-19 patients, 166 and 161 respectively. Although of the 91 intubated patients, 59 are in Mexicali.

Today, the accumulated positive cases of COVID-19 in Baja California are 33 thousand, in addition to 5 thousand 341 deaths and 866 active cases.

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