08/25/2020 - 20:30
- Clarín.com
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On the 158th day of quarantine and when it is still unknown how it will continue from next week, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported 198 new deaths and another 8,771 positive cases of coronavirus throughout the country on Tuesday .
It is the day with the most infections since the start of the pandemic, surpassing the record of 8,713 on Monday, when the unprecedented mark of 382 fatalities was also registered.
Of the new cases, 5,312 -that is, 60% of the day- belonged to the province of Buenos Aires, which already has 223,704 positives. Meanwhile, the City of Buenos Aires reported 1,311 infections and reached 87,569 infected.
In its morning report, the health portfolio had notified the death of 36 people (23 men and 13 women), of which 25 were residents of the province of Buenos Aires, four of Mendoza, three of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), one from Neuquén, one from Río Negro, one from Tierra del Fuego and one from Entre Ríos.
At night, another 162 deaths were reported : 93 men (55 from the Province, 14 from the Federal Capital, eight from Jujuy, three from La Rioja, two from Córdoba, Río Negro, Salta and Santa Fe, and one from Chaco, Entre Ríos , La Pampa, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán); and 69 women (41 from PBA, 16 from Ciudad, three from La Rioja and Santa Fe, two from Jujuy and one from Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Río Negro and Santiago del Estero).
Thus, Argentina reached 7,563 deaths , with a fatality rate of confirmed cases of 2.1%, and a specific death rate from COVID-19 of 162 people per million inhabitants.
According to official information, 21,220 tests were carried out on Monday and 1,127,098 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 24,838.7 samples per million inhabitants. The infection rate is 773 cases per 100,000 people.
Most of those hospitalized for coronavirus are in the AMBA. (Photo: REUTERS / Agustin Marcarian)
At the head of the presentation of the data, the Secretary for Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti , pointed out that -as has been happening in recent days- 80% of the new reports correspond to the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), although she remarked that "there is a significant number of provinces that continue to contribute cases and there are departments that add to that contribution."
The official recalled that there are 16 areas where community transmission is registered and admitted that, in recent times, this situation has not been favorably modified in any jurisdiction.
"Not only are we increasing the areas with extended community transmission, but for weeks we did not define that none has controlled this transmission. (In the Ministry's report) we had been commenting on areas that entered (to that status) and areas that could define that they had controlled it. , (but) in recent weeks no department in the country has managed to control "the situation, he said.
To this panorama, the existence of departments that, "although they do not have transmission, are having outbreaks and conglomerates" of coronavirus is added.
The secretary stated that the "epidemiological situation is changing, with relative stability in the AMBA which is on a high plateau, but with a sustained increase in the jurisdictions that is accompanied by an increase in therapy beds."
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