11/18/2020 7:36 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/18/2020 7:56 PM
The Ministry of Health of the Nation confirmed this Wednesday another 241 deaths from coronavirus (134 men and 107 women) and 10,332 new positive cases confirmed in the last 24 hours.
In addition, as reported, in the last hours 21,572 tests were carried out and 3,474,091 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the beginning of the outbreak.
With these registries, there are 1,339,337 positives in the country, of which 1,156,474 are recovered patients and
146,516 are active confirmed cases.
Buenos Aires was the province that registered the most cases, with 2,826.
It was followed by Santa Fe (1,657), Córdoba (1,381), Tucumán (533), City of Buenos Aires (384), Entre Ríos (374), Chubut (366), Neuquén (348) and Mendoza (339).
They follow Río Negro (299), Corrientes (272), Santa Cruz (268), Chaco (230), Santiago del Estero (229), San Luis (219), San Juan (174), Tierra del Fuego (132), Salta (112).
They complete La Pampa (75), La Rioja (51), Jujuy (27), Catamarca (23), Misiones (10) and Formosa (3).
On this day all the provinces reported new infected.
At the same time, it was reported that 4,267 people are hospitalized in intensive care beds.
So the occupancy percentage is 58% nationwide and 60.5% in the AMBA.
While waiting for the official arrival of a vaccine against the pandemic, the Government, through the Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, assured that 66% of the workers of 60 national hospitals distributed in 13 provinces said that "they would apply the dose".
Of the survey carried out by the Ministry of Health between November 12 and 14, 4,321 workers from the professional and administrative areas of the hospitals participated.
"When asked if they would be vaccinated, 66% of the workers said yes, 21% that they are not sure and 13% would not be given the vaccine if it were available today," the official explained during the epidemiological report.
When consulting the reasons why any of the study vaccines would be applied, Vizzotti explained that the responses were varied;
among them
"because they are part of the essential workers", "to protect the family" or "for personal protection".
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