(ANSA) - BUENOS AIRES, 20 OCT - With 12,982 infections in the last 24 hours, Argentina has exceeded one million coronavirus cases. This was announced by the Ministry of Health in BuenosAires. It is the fifth country in the world to have reached that figure.
The latest report by the health authorities indicated that the contagions from Covid-19 since March are now 1,002,662, and that the 451 deaths on the last day have caused the total death toll to rise to 26,716.
Finally, there are currently 4,392 people admitted to intensive care, with a 64% percentage of bed occupation in the national territory and 63.2 "in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. (ANSA).