Coronavirus in Argentina: 114 deaths and 6,127 new cases reported in the last 24 hours

07/23/2020 - 19:04

• Clarín.com
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125 days after the beginning of the social, preventive and compulsory isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, Argentina reported 6,127 new cases and a total of 114 deaths in the last 24 hours.

In the morning report of the health portfolio they indicated that 29 new deaths were registered. 14 men, 4 residents in the province of Buenos Aires; 9 in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA); one in Mendoza; and 15 women; 6 in the province of Buenos Aires; 8 residents in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA); and one from the province of Mendoza.

At the same time, it was learned that 14,842 new samples were performed on Wednesday and 593,044 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the start of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 13,069.3 samples per million inhabitants.

In recent days, record numbers of cases were recorded in the country , such as Wednesday's case, which had had the highest number to date, with 5,782 infected. However, experts say that the peak of the pandemic in Argentina has not yet been reached.

On the other hand, to date 60,528 recovered have been registered, which means 42% of the total cases.

In as much, the Buenosairean minister of Health, Daniel Gollan, warned this Thursday that "almost certainly" it will be necessary to arrange a new "stage of hardening" of the quarantine due to the "worrying" increase in cases

"The leitmotiv of a virus is to reproduce, as long as there is no vaccine it will reproduce," said the minister, who explained that "in the Buenos Aires AMBA there is a worrying increase in cases" although he assured that "without going back to phase 1, there would have been much more cases. "

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