10/07/2020 - 19:53
Clarín.com
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Argentina became the
sixth country in number
of coronavirus infections
this Wednesday
, after confirming another 16,447 new cases,
an absolute record
for one day.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Health of the Nation in its evening part, the national territory
reached 840,915 positives
, surpassing Spain (835,901) and Peru (832,929) in the “global ranking”, which has not yet released your report of the day.
Now, Argentina is only below the United States, India, Brazil, Russia and Colombia (877,683).
In addition, the health portfolio announced 401 new deaths (214 men and 187 women), for which the total number of fatalities rose to 22,226.
In the part of the previous day, Tuesday, October 6, 14,740 new cases of COVID-19 had been reported in one day and 359 new deaths.
With those records, they added 824,468 positives throughout the country.
Public transport, this Wednesday, in the Federal Capital.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
So far, the places with the most confirmed cases of coronavirus in Argentina are the Province of Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Santa Fe, Córdoba and Mendoza.
That day, also, it was reported that 2,110,994 diagnostic tests for this disease were performed since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 46,521.5 samples per million inhabitants.
Likewise, the percentage of total occupancy of beds in the
Adult Intensive Care Unit
is at 62.5% in the Nation and 63.8% in the Metropolitan Area.
Precisely, until the statistics on Tuesday, the
Province of Buenos Aires
continues to lead the list of infections throughout the country with 446,064 followed by the
City of Buenos Aires
with 130,841 positive cases.
Argentina goes through
the 29th week
since the quarantine was announced, with the gradual opening of some businesses and activities in the Federal Capital and Greater Buenos Aires.
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