Coronavirus in Argentina: 17 other deaths and 564 new cases confirmed in the last 24 hours

06/01/2020 - 19:48

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The Nation's Ministry of Health reported 564 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 17 other deaths, in the last 24 hours. 

In the morning report, the death of two men had been reported, one 86 years old, resident in the City of Buenos Aires and the other 69, from the province of Buenos Aires.

Of the total confirmed, 5.8% are imported, 43.4% by close contact of confirmed cases, 35.5% are cases of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.

Of that total, 49% are women and 51% men. The main affected age groups correspond to people between 20 and 59 years old, the average age being 36 years.

Beyond the new numbers, the figures on the coronavirus in Argentina explain why even today, 90 days after the first contagion of COVID-19 in the country was known, the local pandemic is still contained .

Especially in the number of deaths, according to all experts, which is the true measure of the pandemic. In other words, the real measure of how infections are also growing, beyond the fact that some day more or less tests are carried out.

With a quarantine that paints a world record, the costs of having the beast tied up are high . Both economic and psychological. Regarding the first, this week the government will publish the decree that extends the Emergency Family Income (IFE ), which enables a new payment by the Anses of the $ 10,000 bond .

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