10/29/2020 7:57 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/29/2020 20:01
After exceeding 30,000 deaths despite more than seven months of quarantine, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Thursday
another 372 deaths and 13,267 new cases
of coronavirus.
In this way, the country reached 30,442 fatalities and recorded 1,143,800 infections, ranking seventh in the world ranking of positives.
In the last 24 hours, 31,568 tests were carried out, with a positivity of 42%.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, 2,947,344 diagnostic tests have been performed for this disease, which is equivalent to 61,568 samples per million inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Ginés González García affirmed that “there are symptoms that
things are improving,
but if the circulation of the virus is not contained, there is no recipe in the world that works.” And he reiterated a concept expressed in several opportunities, including by President Alberto Fernández, saying that "it is believed that the government's measures threaten the economy, but it is the virus that threatens the economy."
When visiting the
Federal DetectAR
site
, at the Ruca-Ché stadium in the city of Neuquén, the official expressed his optimism that Argentina will have the vaccine in the month of March and said that “it is necessary to continue working together with all sectors and provinces to reactivate the country ”.
In tune with Ginés, his counterpart from the province of Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollan, highlighted the decline in coronavirus cases for the eighth consecutive week in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) and urged to continue with care to prevent infections.
The Buenos Aires official also relativized the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country.
“They say that we have 30 thousand dead, it is unfortunate, but
the deaths in Argentina are that number and more
.
Every winter there are deaths from acute infectious diseases and in Argentina there are about 40 thousand, "he said.
Finally, when referring to the occupation of intensive care beds in his district, he explained that "we had 1,254 patients in AMBA hospitalized for coronavirus, and now we have about 830". "When everything started, several called me and gave me the Extreme unction, but we never passed 70% occupancy ”, he closed.
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