02/09/2020 - 20:27
Clarín.com
Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Wednesday
199 new deaths and another 10,933 positive cases
of coronavirus throughout the country.
Thus, Argentina overcame a new barrier and reached 9,118 deaths from the disease.
Meanwhile, 439,172 infections have already accumulated.
In its morning part, the health portfolio had confirmed 52 fatalities (32 men and 20 women), of which 34 resided in the province of Buenos Aires, six in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), five in Jujuy, three in Tierra del Fuego and one in Mendoza, Río Negro, Córdoba and Santa Fe.
At night,
another 147 deaths
were added
(87 men and 60 women), of which 75 belonged to the Province, 41 to the Federal Capital, six from Jujuy and Río Negro, five from Entre Ríos, four from Córdoba, three from Mendoza, two from Santa Fe, and one from Salta and Santa Cruz.
The fatality rate for confirmed cases is 2.1% and the specific mortality rate is 197 people per million inhabitants, with an average age of the deceased of
72 years.
During the report, it was pointed out that among patients over 70 years of age, mortality is around 15%, while 80% of deaths correspond to people over 60 years of age.
Of the new infections, 6,235 were reported in the province of Buenos Aires, the most affected district in the national territory, with 271,185 positives, almost 62% of the cases registered so far.
For its part, the City of Buenos Aires reported another 1,346 positives and was one step closer to 100,000 (98,345).
In the interior of the country, there was a new jump in the case curve in Santa Fe (747), Córdoba (480), Mendoza (413), Tucumán (324) and Jujuy (318).
Above the hundred daily infections were also located Entre Ríos (188), whose governor Gustavo Bordet tested positive, Salta (184), Río Negro (173) and Santa Cruz (107).
According to official information, 23,115 tests were carried out on Tuesday and 1,300,866 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 28,668.1 samples per million inhabitants.
View of the isolation center assembled in Tecnopolis.
AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko
The Secretary of Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti
, recalled that the average age of new infections is 38 years, "that age group of young people, who are active because they have the responsibility to work in the excepted activities and with protocol" .
On the other hand, he stressed that the number of people admitted to intensive care
is growing "at the expense of the provinces
that are increasing the number of cases."
"We are following more closely some districts such as Río Negro, with an occupation of 67%; Mendoza, with 64%; or Jujuy, with 71%," added the head of the Ministry of Health Quality,
Arnaldo Medina.
In any case, he indicated that these provinces have particularly compromised areas "at the limit of their capacity" and referred to General Roca and Cipoletti, in Río Negro, which are already at 100% occupancy of beds, as well as the city of Mendoza and the great Mendoza, which is around 90%;
and San Salvador de Jujuy.
Both Medina and Vizzotti referred to the state of
fatigue of the health personnel
: "They are exhausted, very tired, especially in areas with the highest number of beds," said the official.
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