Coronavirus in Argentina: 7,264 new cases and 112 other deaths reported in the last 24 hours

01/17/2021 18:50

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 01/17/2021 6:53 PM

After the arrival in the country of another 300 thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health reported this Sunday

another 7,264 cases and 112 deaths

registered in the last 24 hours.

With these registries, there are 1,799,243 positives in the country, of which 1,583,465 are recovered patients, while 170,371 are active confirmed cases.

This Saturday, the 300,000 doses of the second component of the vaccine of Russian origin arrived in Ezeiza to apply to Health personnel who have already given the first.

To date,

200,759 doses of the vaccine have been applied in Argentina

.

According to the analysis platform Our World in Data, which is based on figures from Oxford University, the country has a vaccination rate equivalent to 0.44 vaccinated per 100 inhabitants (0.44% of the population).

As communicated by the Government, the National Vaccination Campaign against COVID-19 aims to protect in the first place the six populations at risk that total 16 million Argentines.

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