04/23/2020 - 20:59
- Clarín.com
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This Thursday there were 6 new deaths and 147 infected with coronavirus in Argentina, according to the report of the Ministry of Health of the Nation. With these records, there are 3,435 positives in the country and 165 deaths.
Of the total of these cases, 875 (25.5%) are imported, 1,490 (43.4%) are close contacts of confirmed cases, 722 (21%) are cases of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.
The province of Buenos Aires remains first in number of positives (1,120), followed by Federal Capital (837). Until the data of yesterday, Wednesday, in the Conurbano there were 54% more infected than a week ago.
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Watch the specialSix new deaths were registered: there are three women, aged 86, 68 and 75, residing in the province of Buenos Aires; and three men, one 55 years old, also resident in the Province; another 76 years old, resident in the City of Buenos Aires and, finally, one 59 years old, from Mendoza.
The death of a 56-year-old doctor was also known on Thursday afternoon. This is Héctor Bornes, who worked as a clinical doctor at the Angel Marzetti Hospital in Cañuelas. As reported, he was isolated preventively on April 16 after registering a fever, but his condition worsened and he had to be admitted to the Ramón Carrillo Hospital in San Vicente. His death was not yet officially reported by the National Ministry of Health, whose reports are based on the cases that each province uploads to a national data system.
In the morning part, it had been indicated that the total discharges to date was 919 people, while the number of cases discarded until Wednesday was 32,414 (by laboratory and by clinical / epidemiological criteria).
Of the total cases, 49.3% are women and 50.7% are men. With the tests carried out until Wednesday, which were 2,558, from the start of the outbreak, 41,786 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 920.9 samples per million inhabitants .
Finally, it is known that the main affected age groups of the registered cases correspond to people between 20 and 59 years of age, the average age being 44 years.
The Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, has already announced that the peak of coronavirus cases in Argentina could occur in June and in a "flat" way, but that will depend on the stage in May.
"In the big urban centers it will remain firm, to maintain the success we have had so far," he said. In addition, he indicated that they are evaluating making it more flexible for the boys and indicated that this will be a measure that they will take "soon".
The Government has already decided to initiate what is called a "focused" quarantine in seven provinces where the governors requested the authorization of new activities and due to the epidemiological situation, the conditions are considered to be in place.
President Alberto Fernández, precisely, this Thursday led a meeting with the committee of experts that advise him in the fight against the coronavirus to analyze the next formats that the quarantine will have.
The head of state listened to the diagnoses of his medical and scientific advisers , with three days to go until the social, preventive and compulsory isolation that began on March 20 ended.
On the other hand, to the bad news of the massive contagions among the health personnel in the Belgrano hospital in San Martí , now the Paroissien hospital in La Matanza is added, where there are at least seven infected by Covid-19 .
As confirmed by the director of the Paroissien hospital, Alejandro Royo, there are five nurses, a stretcher-bearer and a cleaning worker who are infected by Clarín .