07/29/2020 - 20:00
- Clarín.com
- Society
While a new extension of quarantine defined coronavirus, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported 5,641 new positive cases of coronavirus and 110 deaths in 24 hours.
Since the start of the pandemic, 3,288 deaths and 178,996 infections have been recorded throughout the country.
In the morning report of the portfolio, 21 deaths had been reported , corresponding to 6 men and 6 women from the province of Buenos Aires; a man and four women from the City of Buenos Aires (CABA); 2 men and a woman from Chaco and a resident of Río Negro.
Later, 89 other fatal victims joined : 50 men (35 from Buenos Aires and 15 from the Federal Capital) and 38 women (24 from PBA, nine from CABA, four from Mendoza and one from Santa Fe, in addition to a person from Ciudad de which sex was not specified.
Again, the province of Buenos Aires accumulated the majority of new infections by reporting 3,852 positives, 68% of the cases of the day. Meanwhile, the City registered 1,079 infected, or 19%.
This Tuesday 14,899 new samples were made and since the start of the outbreak there were 675,011 diagnostic tests for this disease, which is equivalent to 14,875.7 samples per million inhabitants. The number of cases discarded until yesterday is 392,744 (by laboratory and by clinical / epidemiological criteria).
Of the total cases up to Wednesday morning (49.2% women and 50.8% men), only 0.6% were imported, 29.5% had close contacts, 53.3% had community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.
Meanwhile, it is known that the quarantine will have a ninth stage starting next Monday, August 3 . It will be so because the number of daily cases is high, but it is not yet known how it will be implemented, and if there will be common strategies or if the City and Greater Buenos Aires, the districts most affected by infections, will take different paths.
Something about it began to be outlined this Wednesday morning in La Plata, where the Buenos Aires officials raised their will to keep things as they are and even advance to the next of the 6 stages that were announced ten days ago to add activities in the inevitable coexistence with the coronavirus.
In the Province, meanwhile, the high number of daily cases is more worrying, the position seems to be more conservative and could even imply going back in phase.
In the province, the union secretary of the Trade Union Association of Buenos Aires Health Workers (CICOP), Pablo Maciel , warned of the possibility of "hardening social isolation measures" to "avoid the worst case scenario and have to choose who who lives and who doesn't, for lack of resources . "
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