09/05/2020 - 19:44
Clarín.com
Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Saturday
117 new deaths and another 9,924 positive cases
of coronavirus throughout the country.
This is an unprecedented number of infections for a Saturday, when the figures tend to decrease due to the lesser amount of data.
In its morning report, the health portfolio had reported the death of 62 people (38 men, 23 women and one reported without gender), of which 42 resided in the Province of Buenos Aires, six in the City of Buenos Aires, three in Entre Ríos and Santa Fe, two in Río Negro and one in Tucumán, Salta, Chaco, Córdoba, Neuquén and Tierra del Fuego.
The mortality rate is 212 people per million inhabitants and the fatality rate for confirmed cases remains at 2.1%.
According to official information, on Friday 24,486 tests were carried out and 1,374,524 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 30,291.4 samples per million inhabitants.
The index that measures the number of positives on tests performed
was located at 49.2%,
that is, 1 out of every 2 analyzes ended up detecting the virus.
Medical personnel carry out checks on patients with COVID-19 in an intensive care unit in the province of Buenos Aires.
Photo EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni
At the head of the morning report, the Secretary of Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti
, said that there are specific areas such as General Roca, in Río Negro;
the capital of Jujuy or the metropolitan area of Mendoza with
"more tension"
, not only in regard to beds, but also in "human resources" to attend patients.
"The AMBA had a stabilized curve, and now it has an increasing trend, not so accelerated but that stability of cases due to the onset of symptoms is increasing," explained the official, affirming that this Friday all the groups that traveled from the ministry to support the provinces.
"A large group went through Mendoza to leave supplies, another is in Jujuy with human resources, and another team went to Santa Cruz. But we also continue in contact with Mendoza, with Tucumán and each of the provinces that have been implementing control measures" , he detailed.
"When the cases begin to increase, the actions that are taken will only be seen in weeks, so if you take care of yourself and see more cases daily you think it makes no sense, but it is not, that will be seen in the next few days ", he concluded.
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