Coronavirus in Argentina: another 271 deaths are confirmed and there are already more than 10,000 deaths throughout the country

07/09/2020 - 20:12

• Clarín.com

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The Ministry of Health of the Nation confirmed this Monday that there are 271 new deaths in the country and the number of infected in the last 24 hours reached 9,215.

During the morning report 53 dead were confirmed;

of which

-7 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 9 in the City of Buenos Aires, 1 in Entre Ríos, 6 in La Rioja, 1 in Mendoza, 2 in Neuquén, 1 in Santiago del Estero and 2 in Santa Fe- and

-9 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 2 in Neuquén, 5 in the City of Buenos Aires, 3 in La Rioja, 1 in Mendoza, 1 in Santa Cruz, 1 in Santa Fe, 1 in Santiago del Estero and 1 in Tucumán-.

The fatality rate of the virus is 2.1% and the general mortality reaches 217 people per million inhabitants, with an average age of 72.2 years.

Currently there are 2,512 people with a confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus who need care in intensive care units.

The occupancy level of the so-called critical beds in the country is 61.8%, and rises to 68.2% if the AMBA is taken as a reference.

The data is accompanied by a report from John Hopkings University, which identified Argentina as the fourth country in the world with the highest daily rate of new cases of COVID-19.

The country today registers 223.7 infections per day per million inhabitants and is only behind three small countries: the Kingdom of Bahrain (334), Israel (262) and the Maldives (246.7).

"The percentage of cases that corresponded to the AMBA, which for months reached 90 percent, today is below 60. There is already tension in the health system in other areas of the country, such as General Roca, Río Negro; in Jujuy capital and in Greater Mendoza ", said the Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti.

And he warned: "Let's not naturalize the numbers. They are cases, they are deaths, they are families. It is a key moment; we need to re-generate that consensus as a society. We have to power."

All the provinces had new cases in the last two weeks and the positivity reached 45.6% at the country level.

The good news is that 357,388 people who had the virus, recovered and were discharged, and represent 74.6% of all positive cases.