• REINFECTION: Four months after having contracted it for the first time, Mexico’s Navy Minister, Rafael Ojeda, announced Tuesday he had tested positive for coronavirus again, joining the relatively small group of people worldwide suffering from reinfection.
• LOW: Like in other parts of the world, coronavirus reinfections in Mexico have been rare but a non-peered review study -published in October in the Medrxiv health sciences website- defined the risk of second-time disease in the country as low (0.26 percent).
• WORLDWIDE: According to BNO News, a Dutch newspaper tracking coronavirus reinfections globally, only 52 cases of reinfection have been confirmed worldwide but another 11,000 cases are suspected. Mexico documented its first confirmed case of reinfection on December 17.
• NUMBERS: As of late Monday, México has officially reported 2,043,632 coronavirus cases and 180,536 deaths. Mexico has the third highest reported death count in the world. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and at least a dozen members of his cabinet have contracted the virus.
