07/14/2020 - 19:51
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported on Tuesday another 65 deaths and 3,645 new cases of coronavirus in the country, most belonging to the province and the city of Buenos Aires.
In the morning, the health portfolio had reported 23 deaths : 16 men (seven residents of the Province and nine of the Federal Capital) and 7 women (five from the Buenos Aires territory and two from CABA), aged between 43 and 92 years.
The fatality rate of the virus, which results from dividing the number of deaths from Covid-19 with the number of people affected by that disease in the same period, is 1.9%, while overall mortality is 41.9 people for every million inhabitants.
However, La Rioja, Tucumán, Chaco, Río Negro, Misiones and Córdoba have mortality rates above 4%.
With regard to people admitted to Intensive Care Units, 95.6% are in the City and Province of Buenos Aires, "said the secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti.
According to official information, 9,377 new samples were made on Monday and 483,799 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the outbreak began, which is equivalent to 10,661 samples per million inhabitants.
For his part, the Undersecretary of Health Strategies of the Nation, Alejandro Costa, affirmed that "there is a decline " in the contagion curve and that if there is an "improvement, it will be possible to define which activities will progressively" go towards an opening.
"If the balance of cases and the system is maintained and an improvement is observed with respect to the situation on July 1, they will be able to define which activities will gradually be installed," he said on the TN channel.
In addition, he said that "with respect to the flattening of the curve, there is a slowdown." In this sense, he assured that there is "an average number of 3,000 cases a day" and "the percentage of progressivity with respect to previous weeks has decreased."
In relation to the maximum number of infections, he noted that "once the number of cases begins to decrease, we will be able to say 'we are past the peak'."
Lastly, he expressed that "we are learning about the behavior of this virus that affects it in winter times, but cases are also still being generated in places where they are in the summer."
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