08/30/2020 - 19:37
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Sunday that there were 104 deaths from the coronavirus and that 7,187 new cases were detected.
Of the total infected for the day, 54.8 percent correspond to the province of Buenos Aires (3,887), followed by the City of Buenos Aires (1,235) with 17 percent of the total.
According to the report, the new deaths correspond to 63 men (22 from the province of Buenos Aires, 14 from the City, 3 from Mendoza; 1 from San Juan; 2 from Santa Fe; 1 Chaco, 4 from Córdoba, 6 from Entre Ríos, one from Neuquén, 6 from Río Negro, two from Salta, one from Santa Fe) and 40 women (14 from the Province, 13 from CABA, 2 from Córdoba, 1 from Entre Ríos, one from Santiago del Estero, two from Chaco, one from Mendoza and 6 residents in Río Negro).
Alejandro Costa, Undersecretary of Health Strategies, was in charge of reporting the updated figures of the pandemic in the country. He indicated that the fatality rate is 2.1%, that 184 people die per million inhabitants and that the average age of the fatal victims is 72.4 years.
Family recreational outings in Rivadavia Park Photo German Garcia Adrasti
According to the official, 401,239 people contracted the disease, the vast majority by community transmission (61%), mainly in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Chaco, Neuquén, Río Negro, Comodoro Rivadavia, Mendoza, Santa Fe, Jujuy, Salta, Santiago del Estero, La Pampa, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán and La Rioja.
In total, 2,192 people are admitted to intensive care. Thus, the percentage of bed occupancy is 60.6% nationwide and 68.7% in the metropolitan area, the most affected area in the country.
The official added that 294,007 people have already been discharged, of which 6,787 recovered on Saturday. These patients represent 73.27% of the total.
On the other hand, Costa highlighted the increase in tests carried out throughout the country, with 1,242,269 in total and 19,910 on Saturday. With these figures, the country reached 27,376 tests per million inhabitants, with a positivity rate of 36%.
Meanwhile Rosa Reina, president of the Argentine Society of Intensive Care (SATI), assured that the situation in hospitals "is getting worse . " "We are in a terribly critical situation, on the verge of collapse, with very few free beds both in CABA and in the suburbs and in the rest of the provinces," the professional explained.
Speaking to Radio 10, the therapist assured that at this time there are more than twenty provinces that are in a situation of alarm, while a month ago there were about four.
"The health personnel is absolutely collapsed, the beds have been increased and expanded in all the places where it has been possible, but the personnel is not enough because it is finite. Nor is it possible to continue increasing many beds. There are places where it cannot be enabled beds because there are no staff, "continued Reina.
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