09/01/2020 - 10:13
Clarín.com
Society
In the midst of a vertiginous increase in cases of coronavirus in Argentina, the bioinformatician and researcher at Conicet Rodrigo Quiroga warned that
"the 16,000 deaths are almost inevitable"
and that there is only "fighting to avoid reaching 32,000 deaths."
"
A week ago the plateau of cases
that had been generated in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires
no longer exists
. Every day we have 200 or 300 more infected than the same day the previous week. It was expected that the cases would begin to rise if activities continued to be made more flexible, "Quiroga said yesterday in dialogue with
El Uncover
Radio
.
And he added: "I think there is no real awareness of the problem.
The 16,000 deaths are almost inevitable, now we have to fight not to reach 32,000
."
In this sense, he assured that "the situation is more alarming in the interior of the country", where the health system is more fragile, and stressed that "in Jujuy something similar to what happened in Peru and Brazil is being experienced," that there are people who "
die at home because they cannot get a bed
in hospitals."
After a vertiginous increase in infections, the province of Jujuy suffered the collapse of the health system.
As the intensive care physician Miguel Salva, head of the Jujuy branch of the Sociedad Argentina de Terapia Intensiva (SATI), stated in a statement with Radio Nacional, "
today we must choose who to put a respirator on and who not to because the system is saturated
".
Graph of daily cases made by Rodrigo Quiroga.
There is no plateau anymore.
According to the latest report from the Jujuy Emergency Operational Committee, in the last 24 hours a new record of daily infections was reported (327) and the total number of cases amounted to 8,239.
For its part, Peru ranks first in the global coronavirus mortality ranking, with 86 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Mainly, the dramatic situation is due to its precarious health system.
Meanwhile, Brazil reached 121,381 fatalities due to Covid-19 and, with 3,908,272 infected, represents 29% of the cases in the American territory.
On the other hand, he proposed defining a "ceiling for the deceased."
Once that limit is reached, the national government should "close everything" and start working hard to reverse the increase in infections.
In addition, he pointed out against "a sector of the population that is against the imposition of greater restrictions."
"The perception of risk is very low and is in contrast to
the real risk that is higher than ever,
" he added.
Finally, he affirmed that the measures taken in Argentina regarding the pandemic were "good, early and successful."
However, the problem was that "the infections could be lowered throughout the country, except in the AMBA, where the virus began to multiply."