Overview

• Mexico City health officials reported three additional discharges on October 7, reducing the hospitalized count to nine while confirming the death toll remains at 31.
• Those released include Kevin Díaz Montes de Oca, who left the Pemex Central Sur hospital on his feet, as well as Miguel Ángel Sánchez Benítez and Alfonso Pérez Gómez.
• Child survivor Jaclyn Azulet remains at Shriners in Galveston after initial skin graft surgeries on her hands, legs and head showed favorable results, and she has begun rehabilitation.
• Daily evening reports continue to consolidate patient status across IMSS, ISSSTE and other facilities treating those injured in the September 10 explosion at Puente de la Concordia.
• Mexico City announced reforms to its Traffic Regulations to impose tougher penalties on gas tankers as federal and local authorities develop broader hazardous-materials transport rules.