11/17/2020 7:53 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/17/2020 8:54 PM
The
Ministry of Health
confirmed on Tuesday that there were 10,621 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
With these records, there are
1,329,005 positives in the country.
In the last 24 hours,
379 new deaths
from coronavirus were reported: there are 220 men and 156 women.
In total, the number of people killed since the beginning of the pandemic is
36,106.
The health portfolio also indicated that there are 4,379 inmates in intensive care units, with an occupancy percentage of adult beds of
58.2% in the country
and
60.4% in the Metropolitan Area of
Buenos Aires.
This Tuesday
2,804 cases
were counted in the
province of Buenos Aires
;
in the City of Buenos Aires, 428;
in Catamarca, 17;
in Chaco, 259;
in Chubut, 344;
in Corrientes, 138;
in Córdoba, 1,309;
in Entre Ríos, 348;
in Jujuy, 21;
in La Pampa, 65;
in La Rioja, 18;
in Mendoza, 396;
in Misiones, 6;
in Neuquén, 999;
in Río Negro, 295;
in Salta, 92;
in San Juan, 172;
in San Luis, 233;
in Santa Cruz, 267;
in Santa Fe, 1,477;
in Santiago del Estero, 113;
in Tierra del Fuego, 132 and in Tucumán 688.
Formosa
, meanwhile, did not register cases.
In the last 24 hours,
34,573 tests
were carried
out
and since the beginning of the outbreak, 3,508,664 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 77,322 samples per million inhabitants.
This week started with an announcement of the preliminary efficacy of one of the experimental vaccines against Covid-19.
This was the case of
Moderna, which yielded 94.5%.
The series had been started last Monday by the communication of
Pfizer-BioNTec
h, with also preliminary results higher than 90%, and the next day the Gamaleya Institute joined with 92% of Sputnik V.
According to a group of experts from the exact sciences that follows the pandemic in the country - represented by Guillermo Durán (UBA), Rodrigo Quiroga (UNC), Rodrigo Maidana (UNLP) and Roberto Etchenique (UBA) -
contagions reached 40%. of the population of the AMBA
, and 15% of the rest of the country (average, 25%).
For more than a week, Argentina has been in a new phase of the quarantine, which included reopening and a new concept
: the AMBA went from ASPO to DISPO.
DISPO stands for 'Social, Preventive and Obligatory Distancing' and ASPO, 'Social, Preventive and Compulsory Isolation', which was in
force from March 20 until the last official announcement.
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