09/16/2020 - 20:19
Clarín.com
Society
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported another 264 deaths from coronavirus this Wednesday.
With this figure, Argentina surpassed Chile in the number of deaths (12,116 against 12,058) and now ranks 14th in the world ranking of fatalities from the disease.
In addition, new
11,674 positive cases
were identified
, already 589,012 since the detection of the first contagion, at the beginning of last March.
The deaths reported during the morning were 58
, divided into 31 men;
26 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 2 in Santa Fe, 1 in the province of Mendoza, 1 in Neuquén and 1 in Tucumán;
and 27 women: 23 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 2 in the City, 1 resident in the province of Mendoza and 1 in Santa Fe.
In the evening part
, 206 deaths were added
(120 men and 86 women), due to the number of fatalities in the country exceeded the barrier of 12,000.
The fatality rate of the virus remains at 2.1% of confirmed cases, while the specific mortality is 261 people per million inhabitants, with an average age of 73 years.
Of the new cases, 6,078 -that is, 52% - were registered in the province of Buenos Aires.
For the second day in a row,
Santa Fe
ranked as the second most affected district, with 1,149, surpassing the 813 in the City of Buenos Aires.
Currently there are 3,049 people with a confirmed diagnosis of covid-19 who need care in intensive care units.
The City of Buenos Aires and the metropolitan region have the most patients in critical beds, but they follow and with increases Córdoba (471), Santa Fe (122), Mendoza (100), Tucumán (94), Neuquén (91 ), La Rioja (88), Río Negro (87) and Salta (85).
On the other hand, and on the level of occupation of those beds, the Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, specified that in the whole country it is 59.8% and in the AMBA it rises to 68.1%.
"We also analyze the areas that experience tension in the health system, and the areas of Jujuy, Greater Mendoza, Rio Negro, Greater Rosario and the area of Salta, in Orán and Tartagal are sustained," he said.
59 percent of the new cases reported correspond to the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), 11.6% to Santa Fe, and 7.7% to Mendoza.
And Vizzotti added: "When we see the incidence of each jurisdiction, the City of Buenos Aires is the one that continues with the highest accumulated incidence, with 3,669 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by the AMBA with 2,557, and the metropolitan region of the Province of Buenos Aires with 2,306 ".
He also reported that there are currently teams from the health portfolio working "with the jurisdictions in Santa Fe, Rosario, Venado Tuerto, Jujuy, in Salta and today, there is an epidemiology team working in Córdoba, in the city of Rio Fourth, also in Río Negro and Neuquén. "
The good news is that so far there are 448,263 people who had coronavirus, recovered and were discharged, which represents 77.6% of the total confirmed cases.
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