12/13/2020 6:14 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/13/2020 6:28 PM
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported
3,213 new cases of coronavirus and 98 deaths
(48 men and 49 women and one person listed without sex) reported in the last 24 hours due to the disease.
The number of deceased persons is 40,766
.
"There are 1,498,160 positives in the country, of which 1,335,317 are recovered patients and 122,077 are confirmed active cases," they reported in a statement.
In addition, they reported that in the last 24 hours "21,793 tests were carried out and since the beginning of the outbreak, 4,259,194 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 93,862 samples per million inhabitants."
Regarding the detail by province of the number of confirmed and accumulated infections, the health portfolio reported:
Buenos Aires
(870-638,029);
CABA
(246-162,809);
Catamarca
(22-2,137);
Chaco
(109-21,702);
Chubut
(125-26,069);
Corrientes
(42-9,548);
Cordoba
(349-119,881);
Entre Ríos
(134-25,719);
Formosa
(1-197);
Jujuy
(1-18,449);
La Pampa
(120-6,970) and
La Rioja
(11-8,934).
The list is completed:
Mendoza
(120-58,258);
Missions
(28-683);
Neuquen
(104-36,920);
Rio
Negro
(158-34,238);
Jump
(28-21,578);
San Juan
(28-9.249);
Saint Louis
(27-15,485);
Santa
Cruz
(203-18,837);
Santa Fe
(632-160,080);
Santiago del Estero
(45-16,488);
Tierra del
Fuego
(75-17.505) and
Tucumán
(80-68.395)
Regarding beds for adults in the
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
, the Ministry detailed that there are 3,537 cases with Covid-19 and the percentage of total occupation is
54.5% in the nation and 58.3% in the AMBA
.
In these holidays, let's celebrate taking care of ourselves.
We share recommendations to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission during the Christmas and New Year celebrations: https://t.co/LGcJ6i4sdh#CuidarteEsCuidarnos pic.twitter.com/Q3g8LGTNPD
- Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) December 13, 2020
Pablo Moreno
, head of the Argentine Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (AAAeIC), assured that allergy sufferers "do not make up a risk group for Covid-19."
"Hypersensitivity to drugs such as a vaccine is considered among the adverse reactions as an unpredictable reaction," he said and said that the population that could be affected by vaccines "would be a small group of between 1 to 4% of the population."
"At the beginning of the pandemic, it was thought that those who suffered from bronchial asthma were, but later, with more accurate data, it was concluded that well-controlled bronchial asthma is not a factor that exacerbates the coronavirus," he told Télam.
Source: agencies.