08/03/2020 - 19:58
- Clarín.com
- Society
Four and a half months after the start of the coronavirus quarantine, the Nation's Ministry of Health reported that this Monday there were 4,824 new infections and 166 were deceased, a new record since the pandemic began.
With these records, they add 206,743 positives in the country. While the total of deceased is 3,813.
The province of Buenos Aires remains the epicenter of the disease, reporting 3,158 new infections (65 percent of the total). To date, it has 125,114 positives. Meanwhile, the City reported 1,051 other cases and reached the 62,698 infected.
In the morning, the health ministry reported that 19 new deaths were registered. 13 men, four from the province of Buenos Aires; three in the City of Buenos Aires; one from Chaco; three from Mendoza; two from Neuquén; and 6 women; four Buenosaireans; and two from Chaco.
Then 147 other victims joined: 76 men, 45 from Buenos Aires; 24 residents in CABA; 3 from Mendoza; 2 from Río Negro; 1 of Santa Fe; 1 of Entre Ríos; and 71 women; 41 from Buenos Aires; 24 in Federal Capital; 3 from Chaco; 1de Entre Ríos; 1 from Río Negro and 1 from Mendoza.
The list among the provinces with the most infected for the day was completed with Jujuy (102); Mendoza (79); Santa Fe (63); Tierra del Fuego (44); Chaco (31); Santa Cruz (27).
Currently, 1,150 infected patients remain in intensive care, where bed occupancy reaches 65% in the Metropolitan Area and 55.5% in the rest of the country.
During Sunday, 11,900 new samples were made and since the start of the outbreak, 747,907 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 16,482.2 samples per million inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization put cold cloths in search of a cure for this disease. The institution issued a harsh warning, assuring that this investigation is hopeful, but "there may never be a panacea against this pandemic."
Several vaccines are in phase three of the clinical trials and we all hope that effective vaccines will come out of them that will help people not get infected, but right now there is no panacea, and perhaps there never will be, "admitted the director. WHO General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a press conference.
Globally, the number of infected already exceeds 17,660.00 cases, of which 262.00 were identified in the last 24 hours. The lethality of 3.8%.
In America there are 9,476,000 infected with coronavirus, which represents 47.7%. Argentina groups 2% of the total continental cases, Brazil, 28.1% and the United States, 48.2%. The lethality is 3.8%.
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