10/31/2020 20:09
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/31/2020 8:19 PM
While the versions about the possible arrival of the Russian vaccine to the country grow, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Saturday
another 211 deaths and 9,745 new cases
of coronavirus throughout the national territory.
In this way, Argentina
reached 31,002 fatalities
and recorded 1,166,924 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the last 24 hours, 26,699 tests were carried out, with
a positivity of 36.4%
.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, 3,006,804 diagnostic tests have been carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 66,263 samples per million inhabitants.
Situation # COVID19 in Argentina
Confirmed: 9,745 |
Total: 1,166,924 Deaths
: 211 |
Total: 31,002
ICU beds occupation
: 4,969
Percentage of total adult ICU beds:
- Nation: 64.3%
- AMBA: 61.0%
Full report: https://t.co/iJHidBW0Uj pic.twitter.com/7iBc3jrVlR
- Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) October 31, 2020
According to what emerged in the last hours, a delegation headed by the Secretary for Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti
, traveled to Moscow to negotiate the purchase of the second version of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by the government of Vladimir Putin.
Clarín
learned from very high sources that Russia will make a sale to Argentina through the HLB Pharma Group laboratory.
The agreement is expected
to be ready by December
and will reach 6 to 10 million doses.
Both the Nation and the Province estimate that these vaccines would first be aimed at health professionals and the population at risk.
Sputnik V was the
first vaccine to be registered in the world,
in August, when Putin announced that he had won the global race for the dose, and that he had even tested on his own daughter.
The Lancet
medical journal
recently published that 100% of healthy adults participating in Phase I and II clinical trials of Sputnik V demonstrated a strong immune response against SARS-CoV-2.
Meanwhile, the second wave of infections continues to hit hard in several European countries, several of them with unprecedented numbers of positives to date.
Germany reported another 19,059 infections today, beating yesterday's record of 18,681.
Other countries with new daily records in the last hours were Portugal (4,007) and Poland (21,897).
For its part, Italy reported 31,758 positives.
In the world ranking of infections there were no major variations, so Argentina remains in position seven, only surpassed by the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Spain.
The "top ten" is completed by Colombia, the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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