Mexico City: The Mexican Health Ministry has updated the levels of epidemiological hazard for all regions of the country and announced for the first time a low level of threat in the southern state of Chiapas and neighboring Campeche.

Addressing on at a press conference late on Friday, Ricardo Cortes Alcala, the director-general of health promotion at the ministry, said,  "Two regions are in the red zone - Durango and Chihuahua, 14 in the orange and yellow [zones], and, for the first time, two states with the green level of the least risk, but it is not still zero,"

At the same time, six states viz Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Queretaro, and Mexico City are highly expected to move to a state of maximum epidemiological risk. So far, Mexico has confirmed as many as 1,025,969 COVID-19 cases, including 100,823 fatalities.

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