3rd COVID-19 wave in Mexico concentrated in young population: President

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday that the third COVID-19 outbreak in the country is mainly concentrated in the young population, but with a low death rate, reported Xinhua.

In his regular daily press conference, the president explained that young people have shown that they have more "resistance" to COVID-19, while the vaccination campaign begun in December is working among older adults.

"With these surges in some states, there are more infections among young people. This is the phenomenon taking place in the country," Lopez Obrador told journalists at the National Palace in Mexico City.

"Fortunately, we don't have an increase in deaths because we have made progress in vaccination, so it helps a lot to get vaccinated, especially among the elderly," he added.

The national vaccination campaign is currently focused on people between 30 and 39 years of age.

As of Wednesday, Mexico had accumulated 2,558,369 COVID-19 cases and 234,192 deaths.