04/29/2020 - 20:02
- Clarín.com
- Politics
This Wednesday there were 7 new deaths and 158 infected with coronavirus in Argentina, according to the report of the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
The province of Buenos Aires maintains the highest rate of COVID-19 cases, followed by the City of Buenos Aires.
In the morning part, it had been indicated that of the total of confirmed cases 22% were imported, 42.8% are close contacts of confirmed cases, 23.8% are cases of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.
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Watch the specialLikewise, of the total cases, 50.2% are women and 49.8% are men, while on the morning of this Wednesday the total number of discharges was 1,192.
Meanwhile, the main age groups affected correspond to people between 20 and 59 years old, with an average age of 43 years.
President Alberto Fernández had announced on Saturday the extension of the general quarantine against the coronavirus until May 10.
Fernández insisted that day that the greatest difficulty is "in the large urban centers", where more than 47% of cases are registered, and for this reason he emphasized that in cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants, the restrictions will continue as before.
After the announcement, a controversy was generated around the scope of recreational outings (500 meters and an hour), so regions such as the Federal Capital came out to rule it out given the increasing number of cases.