03/03/2021 17:37
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/03/2021 17:43
The Government confirmed this Wednesday
7,855 new cases
and another
262 deaths
from coronavirus, registered throughout the country in the last 24 hours.
With these figures, Argentina reaches a total of
2,126,531
confirmed infected, on the one-year
anniversary
of the first case detected.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, this Wednesday 152,489 patients are suffering from the disease, of which 3,521 are admitted to intensive care.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 52,453 people have died in Argentina infected with Covid-19.
This new part is known the day a new one of the PAIS Project was published, dependent on the Ministry of Science of the Nation, which confirmed that in Argentina there is already
community circulation of the Rio de Janeiro variant of
the coronavirus.
The data comes from the report N ° 16 of Surveillance of variants of SARS-CoV-2, which was published hours before one year of the first detection of Covid-19 in Argentina.
The United Kingdom variant
was identified in three cases:
two presented a travel history and the third was the first case of community circulation of this variant reported in our country.
As it transpired, it would be a patient from La Matanza.
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