Karina Niebla
08/08/2020 - 20:13
- Clarín.com
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Flores, Balvanera and Palermo are the three neighborhoods that push up the curve of coronavirus infections in the City of Buenos Aires the most. One in five new cases in the last week were registered there, according to the Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, which continues to place Villa Soldati at the top in the number of positives per 100,000 inhabitants.
There are two neighborhoods that in these five months were always at the top of both the rankings of cases and rates in Buenos Aires: Retiro and Flores . It is true that, in the last week, they saw infections increase to a much lesser extent than the rest of the City : 3.4% and 9.3% respectively. But it must also be taken into account that, given the high amount of accumulated in these neighborhoods, each of those percentage points of rise contain many more cases than the Buenos Aires average.
That is why, despite this slowdown, Flores is where the most new cases in absolute terms were registered in the last seven days: 547. They are followed by Balvanera , with 505 more positives, and Palermo , with another 489. In the Bulletin it stands out in turn, these three neighborhoods, together with Villa Lugano, Barracas and Retiro, account for 42% of those infected.
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On the other hand, the Buenos Aires neighborhoods with the least positives are also where the cases increase in a higher percentage compared to the previous week. Versailles is in the first place in that ranking and, at the same time, in the last place in the accumulated.
It is that in Versailles there are few cases in relation to the rest of the City -132 according to the latest Bulletin-, so any new positive moves the percentage considerably. This is how in one week those infected increased by 32%, almost nine percentage points more than the next one on that list, Núñez , and more than double the Buenos Aires average, of 13.7%.
Núñez constitutes a case similar to that of Versailles: it is second in the increase in positives, and last in the list of infected per 100,000 inhabitants . But with two important differences, because it has triple the number of infections and is among the first Buenos Aires neighborhoods where the virus arrived, although its panorama is far from being that of the most complicated areas of the City.
Villa Pueyrredón, Villa Devoto and Caballito follow the ranking of the percentage of increase in cases . The latter is a territory to attend to with greater attention: it integrates the top five in the rate of infections (21.8% increase in the last week), while it is ninth in absolute number of cases, with 2,318 until the close of the Epidemiological Bulletin. It is also the third most densely populated neighborhood in Buenos Aires, while Núñez and, above all, Versalles, have a density even lower than the average in the City.
Caballito is in the top five in contagion rate and is the ninth in absolute number of cases, according to the latest City Epidemiological Bulletin. Photo: Germán García Adrasti
In number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants , the one that heads the table is Villa Soldati . One out of every three infections in that neighborhood is registered in the Ramón Carrillo village, which, like the rest of the settlements, exhibits worse living and working conditions to maintain strict isolation. There, there was also an active search for positives and their close contacts with the DetectAr program, which arrived in mid-June.
The last stops of that program were in Coghlan and Villa Urquiza on Monday, and in Villa Crespo, on Thursday. Last week they had stopped at Belgrano and Villa Ortúzar, where they registered a positivity rate of 21.3 and 16.4% respectively.
Until Friday inclusive, there were 68,310 positives among residents of the City, 1,217 of them registered that same day. Until the first hour of Saturday, there were 1,507 Buenos Aires residents deceased, with an average age of around 76 years. High blood pressure, chronic neurological diseases and diabetes are, in that order, the most frequent comorbidities.
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