03/09/2020 - 19:24
Clarín.com
Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Thursday
245 deaths and 12,026 new cases
of coronavirus throughout the country.
This is the
highest number of infections
for a day recorded so far - surpassing the 11,717 on August 30 -, in addition to being the first time that the barrier of 12,000 positives in 24 hours has been exceeded.
With this new jump, 451,198 positives have already been recorded since the start of the pandemic.
The province of Buenos Aires, as is already a constant, accumulated most of the infections of the day, registering 6,990 infected.
Meanwhile, the City of Buenos Aires added another 1,411 positives and reached 99,756.
Santa Fe
, for the second consecutive day
,
was the third most affected district, with 764 cases.
Behind were Mendoza (544), Córdoba (449), Jujuy (357), Tucumán (272) and Salta (241).
Rio Negro (158) Neuquén (135), Entre Ríos (109) and Chaco (106) were also located above one hundred infections.
The rest of the positives were distributed between Tierra del Fuego (98), La Rioja (93), Chubut (79), San Juan (74), Santiago del Estero (64), Santa Cruz (47), San Luis (18) , Corrientes (9), Formosa (4), Catamarca (3, with a return to Phase 2 of isolation) and La Pampa (1).
Misiones, the province with the fewest cases (64), was the only one that did not report recent infections.
In the morning, the health ministry had reported the death of 38 people (27 men and 11 women), of which 26 were residents of the Province, four from the City of Buenos Aires, two from Chaco and Río Negro, and one from Mendoza, Tierra del Fuego, Neuquén and Córdoba.
In the evening report,
another 207 deaths
were confirmed
(106 men and 101 women): 157 belonged to the Province, 27 to CABA, six to Córdoba, four to Santa Fe and Río Negro, three to Jujuy, two to Neuquén and one to Chaco, La Pampa and Salta.
Thus, Argentina reached
9,361 deaths,
with a mortality rate of 201 people per million inhabitants and a fatality of 2.1% of confirmed cases.
The average age of the fatal victims is 72.3 years.
On Thursday, 23,821 tests were carried out and since the beginning of the outbreak 1,324,687 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out, which is equivalent to 29,193.1 samples per million inhabitants.
From different sectors they begin to warn about the lack of medical personnel.
Photo EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni
In her usual morning report, the Secretary of Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti,
said that "the situation is the same as in recent weeks" and pointed out the "
tension
" and "
stress
" suffered by the health system and the staff attending the pandemic.
The official referred to the meeting that hours before President Alberto Fernández and Minister Ginés González García had with health professionals, from doctors to nurses, orderlies, physical therapists and cleaning and administrative personnel.
Vizzotti called the "commitment" transmitted by health workers during the meeting "exciting", adding that they explained "what is happening now, the tension and stress that this workload generates."
According to the official, health professionals, after stating that "their commitment is unwavering" despite the "fear" of infections from their colleagues and relatives, insisted on the need to prevent a further spread of the virus.
"(They) need us to take care of ourselves, even if it is difficult.
We need to redouble our efforts
, become a shield of protection and not a chain of transmission," he said.
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