Mexico’s new data dashboard highlights COVID-19 demographics in hopes of strategies to tackle the pandemic

The global health emergency caused by COVID-19 has made governments all around the world implement measures to try to contain it and mitigate its spread.

The pandemic, which recently reported over eight million confirmed cases worldwide , seems to be slowing down in Europe , however, the American continent is currently the worst affected.

As of June 19, Mexico registered 170,485 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 20,394 deaths . However, the Health Ministry has already devised a

to reactivate the economy.

Hence the importance of having data on the country’s coronavirus pandemic available, the reason why Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) developed a data dashboard that breaks down specific COVID-19 demographic information .

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This information could potentially help policymakers and scientists develop new strategies to deal with the pandemic while it can also help the general population have a more detailed understanding of how the new disease is affecting people in different ways.

INEGI’s new data visualization dashboard shows COVID-19 time trends and demographic information among cases, hospitalizations, and deaths across states and municipalities, and provides extra information on the sociodemographics of the population and available services in each community.

Some of the data shown by INEGI in its new dashboard include sex , age , ethnicity , education , economic level , health services , housing , access to tap water , and the number of hospitals in the area, pharmacies , supermarkets , banks , and gas stations , among others.

It also breaks down the death rate caused by different respiratory diseases , such as pneumonia , and other diseases like diabetes , as well as information regarding COVID-19 comorbidities.

This is highly relevant information considering Mexico has at least 43.8 million people , that is, a third part of the country’s population, in a vulnerable situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study conducted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) .

Back in April, the UNAM presented Mexico’s Vulnerability Index in the context of the new coronavirus which highlighted the level of vulnerability of communities throughout the country that considers financial vulnerability and access to health services as some of the indicators.

Also in April, Mexico’s Health Ministry released a data dashboard that shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at a national , state , and local level.

The data dashboard, available online, also features the option to break down the data on suspected cases and deceases , helping users identify the location of cases throughout the country in a more specific way. It also shows charts with information on confirmed cases, suspected cases, and deaths sorted by sex, age, and seriousness.

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