Coronavirus in Argentina: another 159 deaths and 7,369 new cases confirmed in the last 24 hours

08/10/2020 - 19:50

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The new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Argentina are 7,369 and the deaths 159, as reported by the Ministry of Health of the Nation in its daily report this last Monday.

The Province of Buenos Aires set a new record for infections, with 5,402 new positives. Which indicated 73 percent of the total of the day. It was followed by the City of Buenos Aires with 1,047.

The health portfolio reported that of the deceased correspond to 91 men  (63 from the province of Buenos Aires, 17 from the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), two from Córdoba; two in Mendoza, one in Chaco, one in Jujuy; one in Tierra del Fuego and four in Río Negro) and 68 women (46 from Buenos Aires, 16 in CABA, two in Chaco, one in Tierra del Fuego, one in Córdoba and one from Mendoza and Santa Fe, respectively).

Of the total number of confirmed cases until Monday at noon (49.2% women and 50.8% men), 0.5% were imported, 26.7% from close contacts, 56.7% from community circulation and the The rest are under epidemiological investigation. To date, the total number of registrations is 174,974 people.

On Sunday, 10,835 new samples had been taken and since the beginning of the outbreak there were 856,055 diagnostic tests for this disease, which is equivalent to 18,865.5 samples per million inhabitants. The number of cases discarded before Monday was 483,051.

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While the infections and the economic crisis advance, hope appears because they began to test a vaccine in the country . The tests of the Pfizer laboratory and the BioNtech firm began this Monday at the Central Military Hospital. 15,000 people had signed up, but only 4,500 make up the study.

Another good news is that face-to-face classes returned in the country , in the first rehearsal of the "new normal" in the province of San Juan. 10,470 students were summoned and 70% attended. The desks are 1.5 meters apart.

They were students in the last year of primary and secondary school in 288 schools. The state primary cycle had the lowest attendance, 49% of the students called. Private schools, the highest, attended 89%. For the Ministry of Education of San Juan, the number of students was positive because it was "voluntary" to return to school and families who were afraid or did not agree, "their children will continue to receive education at home."

Likewise, despite the good news, from private health they warned that, for now, "there is no reason to be optimistic . " The businessman Claudio Belocopitt, owner of Swiss Medical and president of the Argentine Union of Health Entities, assured that the private system "is in maximum tension", in the framework of the pandemic.