09/18/2020 - 20:38
Clarín.com
Society
Shortly after the national government announced the extension of the quarantine until October 11, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Friday that 197 deaths from the coronavirus were registered and 11,945 new cases were identified.
"Since the last report issued, 166 new deaths have been reported," they indicated.
In the morning, the health portfolio reported 31 deaths.
At the head of the daily report this morning, the Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, commented that "both the number of cases and the number of people admitted to intensive care units with confirmed Sars Cov-2, as well as the occupation of beds and the percentage of positivity are decreasing in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) and increasing proportionally in the rest of the country ".
In this sense, the official reiterated that "with the increase in the circulation of people, the transmission" of a "virus that has no treatment or vaccine" increases and that the way the world has to minimize the spread is with "those two meters away, with a mask, hand washing, cleaning hands and surfaces, trying to avoid meetings in closed spaces and following the recommendations in work environments ".
In addition, he insisted that the person with symptoms contact the health system and if it is a close contact of a confirmed case, maintain the 14 days of isolation "regardless of a swab" that can give negative.
There are 467,287 patients who were discharged, a figure that corresponds to 77.6% of the cases reported since the beginning of the pandemic, last March.
On Thursday, 28,633 tests were carried out and since the beginning of the outbreak 1,682,249 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out, which is equivalent to 37,072.9 samples per million inhabitants.