06/30/2020 - 20:32
- Clarín.com
- Society
Argentina added 2,262 new infections and 27 deaths due to coronaviruses in 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
This morning, the ministry had reported three deaths, an 82-year-old man and two women, 72 and 93 years old, all residing in the province of Buenos Aires.
Of the total cases (49.5% women and 50.5% men), 1.7% are imported. In addition, 36.1% are close contacts of confirmed cases, 43.6% of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation. The main age ranges correspond to people between 20 and 59 years old and the average age is 36 years old.
On Monday, 7,993 new samples were made and since the start of the outbreak, 352,402 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 7,766 samples per million inhabitants. The number of cases discarded until yesterday is 232,016 (by laboratory and by clinical / epidemiological criteria).
48 deaths from coronavirus in one day were reported Monday: two an hour. That was the record that, according to specialists, "you have to pay attention to it." "The tightening of the quarantine in the AMBA will surely serve to slow down the rate of infections and this may have an impact on the number of deaths, but that takes time to see, " infectious diseaseologist Daniel Stamboulian told Clarín .
While the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is preparing for a new stage of hard quarantine, the Buenos Aires Government launched a package of relief measures for "non-essential" businesses that should be closed.
It includes the cancellation of ABL's debts while the new phase of quarantine lasts, cheap loans and the suspension of embargoes. Everything points to cushion the lack of activity and the fall in income of around 110,000 CABA businesses that will only be able to sell with delivery until July 17, at least.
Meanwhile, President Alberto Fernández warned on Tuesday that "you have to be a little scared of the intelligent quarantine" against the coronavirus because, he remarked, "the virus does not distinguish between good and bad, between Peronists and radicals."
In this regard, he recalled that "for a long time" he was "very attacked" for that position. "They told me 'why don't you look at the smart quarantine in Chile, or the smart quarantine in Sweden'. And it turns out that the smart quarantine did not seem so smart, because what you need is to drastically stop circulation in situations like this," he recalled. .