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3rd wave of Covid-19 in Mexico targets middle-aged, unvaccinated

Mexico City, Jul 20 (EFE).- The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico is having its greatest impact among middle-aged people and individuals who have not been vaccinated, the government said Tuesday.Mexico detected 68,637 new infections last week, an increase of more than 36 percent over the previous week that brought the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 2.66 million.Covid-19 has claimed more than 236,000 lives in Mexico, a death toll exceeded by only the United States, Brazil and India. (Camera: MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRADE). SHOT LIST: MEXICO'S DEPUTY HEALTH SECRETARY, HUGO LOPEZ-GATELL, SPEAKS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.SOUND BITES: HUGO LOPEZ-GATELL, MEXICO'S DEPUTY HEALTH SECRETARY (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: 1. The majority of the people hospitalized for Covid at this moment are people under 52 and an enormous majority are people who weren't vaccinated, this is 97 percent.2. We have a society already long tired - fatigued - of having these long months of epidemic. What one can ask of society in terms of reduction of mobility is not the same today as it was in February 2020.