08/18/2020 - 20:28
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Monday that in the last 24 hours 235 deaths from coronavirus were reported and new 6,840 infections were identified. With these records, there are 305,966 positives in the country and 6,048 deaths.
In the morning, 63 new deaths were registered : 40 men, 29 residents of PBA; 7 in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA); one in Chaco; two in Jujuy and one in Neuquén. And 23 women: 15 residents in the province of Buenos Aires; five in CABA; one in Formosa, Salta and Jujuy.
As of Monday, 13,483 new samples had been taken and since the beginning of the outbreak 994,942 diagnostic tests for this disease had been carried out. Until this morning, the total number of registrations was 223,531 people.
The new report came out a day after the march across the country against the government's isolation policies to combat the coronavirus pandemic and also to question the Justice reform project, corruption and insecurity, according to the different calls. .
From the Frente de Todos, they warned about the possibility that the march has been a source of contagion and the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, asked the health workers for "forgiveness" for "not having managed to prevent" the march.
Precisely, President Alberto Fernández had announced at the end of last week the extension of isolation in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) until August 30.
This new stage of the fight against the coronavirus included a return to phase 1 in several provinces in the interior of the country where there was a greater growth of cases, while in the City and the Suburbs the focus is on continuing to avoid social gatherings.
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