06/06/2020 - 20:42
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Ministry of Health reported this Saturday another 16 deaths and 983 cases of coronavirus, a record number of infections in one day.
In the morning, health authorities reported that 10 other deaths occurred.
The figures correspond to day 78 of the quarantine established by the national government against the coronavirus and which is maintained in areas of community transmission such as the Federal Capital, the province of Buenos Aires, the province of Chaco, Greater Córdoba, Trelew and Río Negro. .
In the Federal Capital, this Saturday the Detect operation was launched in the Balvanera neighborhood, where the most patients were registered in the last five days
And in the province of Buenos Aires, the authorities decided to leave behind the total isolation of the Villa Azul, located between the parties of Quilmes and Avellaneda, to start a less restrictive phase against the decrease in infections.
In the morning report, the health authorities indicated that 5,416 new samples were carried out on Friday and 189,278 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the start of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 4,171.3 samples per million inhabitants.
They detailed that the number of cases discarded until Friday is 135,454 (by laboratory and by clinical / epidemiological criteria, and that the main age groups affected by the registered cases correspond to people between 20 and 59 years old, with the average age being 33 years.
