08/15/2020 - 20:48
- Clarín.com
- Society
On the day after a new extension of the quarantine, the Ministry of Health of the Nation confirmed this Saturday 110 new deaths and another 6,663 positive cases of coronavirus throughout the country. Most of the infections belonged to the province of Buenos Aires.
In its morning report, the health portfolio had reported the death of 38 people (23 men and 15 women), of which 26 were residents of the province of Buenos Aires; four from the City of Buenos Aires, four from Chaco, two from Mendoza, one from Salta and one from Tierra del Fuego.
The fatality rate remains at 1.9% of confirmed cases.
The health authorities specified that on Friday 19,779 new samples were made and since the beginning of the outbreak, 911,596 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out, which is equivalent to 20,089.5 samples per million inhabitants.
In San Isidro, bars with outdoor tables began to operate. (Photo: Marcelo Carroll)
The Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, highlighted that the daily average of cases in the last week was 6,680, and said that what we must look at is "the film and not the photo, that is, the evolution."
The official acknowledged the concern because "we continue to see that Jujuy has more than 50 percent positivity, that Mendoza has 43, Neuquén 48, Salta 64 and Santiago del Estero 61."
"We are working with the 24 jurisdictions with different epidemiological situations in the new DNU that divides the country into ASPO (Social, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation) and Dispo (Social, Preventive and Mandatory Distancing) and which is decided based on whether or not to have transmission community, the doubling time of cases in less than 15 days and the type of response of the health system, "he clarified.
In addition, Vizzotti said that "now we have a horizon of being able to count on a vaccine if phase 3 is fulfilled", and that this situation "changes everything" because "we have a concrete perspective", after which he asked "to intensify care so that the day we can begin to vaccinate people at risk, we will arrive with the least amount of cases and victims. "
"This is the effort of the entire country, of the health team, and I reiterate that every day departures are authorized for the controls of chronic conditions, for prevention actions, vaccination and for acute events. The health system he is prepared and it is important not to delay the consultations, "he concluded.
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