Coronavirus in Argentina: 250 deaths and 11,905 new cases confirmed in the last 24 hours

09/10/2020 - 20:19

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The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Thursday a total of 11,905 new infected by coronavirus, while 250 deaths were added.

It is the third consecutive day with more than 11 thousand daily infections, after 12,027 on Wednesday and 12,259 on Thursday.

The province of Buenos Aires, once again, accounted for the majority of cases, with 6,252, followed by 1,284 in the City.

Between them they accumulate 424,363 positives, almost 81% of the entire country.

For the second day in a row,

exceeded a thousand infected, with 1,042.

It already adds 15,743 cases and is the third most affected district in Argentina.

Behind were Mendoza (731), Córdoba (443), Salta (367), Tucumán (283), Jujuy (280) and Río Negro (265).

They also reported more than one hundred infections Neuquén (180), La Rioja (143), Entre Ríos (137) and Chaco (128).

The other positives were distributed among Santiago del Estero (88), Santa Cruz (86), Tierra del Fuego (62), Corrientes (60), Chubut (29), La Pampa (27), Catamarca (12), San Luis ( 10), San Juan (1) and Formosa (1).

Misiones

was the only province that did not report recent infections and subtracted six from its total, thus remaining the national district with the fewest cases (65).

During the morning 55 deaths were reported, divided into

;

29 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 4 in the City of Buenos Aires, 5 residents in the province of Mendoza and 5 in Santa Fe;

and

: 9 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 1 in Neuquén and 2 residents in the province of Santa Fe.

Later, the evening report

(114 men and 81 women), of which 103 resided in the province of Buenos Aires, 30 in the Federal Capital, 14 in Santa Fe, nine in Salta, eight in Mendoza and Entre Ríos. six in Jujuy, five in Córdoba, four in Río Negro, two in La Rioja and Santiago del Estero, and one in Chaco, Neuquén and Tierra del Fuego.

According to the health portfolio, the fatality rate of the virus remains at 2.1% and the specific mortality is 233 people per million inhabitants, with an average age of 72 years.

Currently there are 2,829 people who have coronavirus and require assistance in intensive care units.

62.7% of them are in the AMBA, while 12.5% ​​are in Córdoba and 2.5% are in Mendoza.

The occupancy level of the so-called critical beds is 62.4% in the entire country and scales to 69.1 in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires.

The Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, insisted that work is under tension in the health systems of Mendoza, Salta, Jujuy, Río Negro and Gran Rosario.

The official repeated the need to increase controls and measures when an outbreak begins, because

and gave San Luis as an example, which increased the restrictions.

In the last hours, that province extended the Social, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation for seven days to try to "cut the chain of infections and restrict the circulation of people who live in San Luis, Greater San Luis, Tilisarao and Merlo."

The good news is that 390,098 people who had the virus, recovered and were discharged,