10/25/2020 7:42 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/25/2020 7:55 PM
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Sunday a total of 9253 new infected with coronavirus and another 284 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Chubut once again surpassed the City in number of infections in one day.
With these records,
totaling 1,090,589 positive in the country,
of which
894,819 are recovered patients
and 166,874 confirmed cases are active.
In the last 24 hours, 284 new deaths were reported: 167 men and 117 women.
The total number of deaths from covid is 28,896.
The occupancy level of beds in the Intensive Care Unit for Adults rose to 62.4% in the AMBA, while in the rest of the country it fell to only 63.5%.
In the last 24 hours, 20,303 tests were carried out and since the beginning of the outbreak, 2,823,654 diagnostic tests were carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 62,226.9 samples per million inhabitants.
Argentina, which until a few months ago looked with great concern at the level of infections in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires,
is currently the sixth country with the most confirmed cases in the world
, behind the United States, India, Brazil, Russia and France, but The tension due to the advance of the pandemic is focused on the interior provinces.
The data is known when this Monday begins a new stage in the isolation proposed by President Alberto Fernández, which will last at least two more weeks.
The quarantine, now stricter in the interior of the country, will
continue at least until Sunday, November 8.
The head of state focused on Santa Fe, Chubut, Córdoba, San Luis, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, and Tucumán.
They are the districts that concentrate 55 percent of infections.
Fernández had held a videoconference with their respective governors on Thursday to finalize details and affirmed that he had telephone conversations with the Buenos Aires head of government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and with the Buenos Aires president Axel Kicillof.
Fernández warned that the health system works under "stress" in several provinces.
"There are hospitals that are overflowing, therapists that get tired and we must guarantee, as we have done today, that everyone has care," he said.
