04/22/2020 - 21:00
- Clarín.com
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This Wednesday there were 8 new deaths and 144 infected with coronavirus. With the new update released by the Ministry of Health.
The province of Buenos Aires remains first in number of positives. In the Conurbano there are 54% more infected than a week ago.
In the morning part released by the official body, a new death had been reported: an 82-year-old man, resident in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), which added 152 deaths from the pandemic.
Likewise, in the same report it was highlighted that of the total of confirmed 866 (27.6%) are imported, 1,346 (42.8%) are close contacts of confirmed cases, 618 (19.7%) are cases of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.
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Watch the specialAs a percentage, of the total cases 49.4% are women and 50.6% are men, while the total number of discharges -until this Wednesday morning- was 872 people.
The Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García , had considered last night that the peak of coronavirus cases in Argentina could occur in June and in a "flat" way, but that it would depend on the stage in May.
"First we started talking about April, then our technicians began to say May; as we have managed the epidemic, the peak is going to be very small and later than you think, " he said.
González García had already confirmed on Monday night that after April 27 the quarantine will be opened in some areas of the country. "The quarantine will continue, only with different characteristics," said the official.
"We are going to start by geography, chatting with each of the jurisdictions of the provinces, by epidemiological level. What will happen in each jurisdiction will not be the same," said the minister of the health area.