10/18/2020 7:50 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/18/2020 7:50 PM
While new quarantine openings are being arranged and they begin to plan what the summer season will be like, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Sunday 10,561 new infections and another 161 deaths from coronavirus.
Of the 161,838 patients with the disease, 4,386 remain hospitalized in intensive care units, whose bed occupancy rate is 63.4% in the AMBA and 64.2% in the rest of the country.
In the last 24 hours, 20,955 tests were carried out, which shows a positivity of 64.4%.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, 2,359,606 diagnostic tests for this disease have been carried out, which is equivalent to 52,000 samples per million inhabitants.
The list of the nations most affected in terms of coronavirus cases in the world is headed by the United States, followed by India, Brazil, Russia, Argentina and Colombia.
During Saturday the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, asked that society continue with preventive care and affirmed that the vaccine against COVID-19 "could be for the beginning of the year, or perhaps a few days before", while " in March ”it would arrive en masse.
Although he said "to have a lot of hope", the minister remarked that still no vaccine is approved.
"Among the seven or eight vaccines that are in the first line, we are negotiating with five of those. There are three that are doing phase 3 trials in our country, and one will be manufactured here. But the exact date is not known by the manufacturers themselves. , since they do not know when it will be approved, "he admitted in an interview with Radio Continental.
"I am very proud of the quarantine," the Minister said later when asked what he would do differently, if he had to start over.
However, he indicated that "surely we would have done some different things, since it is easy to tell with Monday's newspaper."
The minister explained that "there is a version that would indicate that the virus has mutated to greater contagiousness" and although he maintained that he cannot "ensure" the certainty of the version, he considered that "the American continent continues to be the center of the pandemic and that unfortunately we have to take the measures that we have to take. "
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