‘Highest part of plateau’: Juarez hits 909 virus cases, 210 deaths

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The city of Juárez recorded 14 new coronavirus deaths on Saturday and Sunday, for a death count of 210 to date, Chihuahua state health officials said.

Confirmed virus cases also grew substantially over the weekend, rising from 841 on Friday to 909 on Sunday.

"We are at the highest part of the plateau of the curve and we have to keep it that way," said Arturo Valenzuela Zorrilla, the medical director for Mexico's northern zone.

He urged Juárez residents to stay home to avoid "unleashing an increase in the peak" that could result in an overflow at local hospitals with new Covid-19 patients.

“If you are going out, it could have contributed to making some of the people hospitalized right now sick; the center of Ciudad Juárez is full of people and those same people who are on the street, will soon be crying at the doors of the hospitals because their relative is hospitalized," he warned.

Juarez continues to responsible for the majority of both cases and deaths in Chuhuahua state. As of Sunday, the state death count now totaled 263 and confirmed cases amounted to 1,476, according to the Ministry of Health.