11/06/2020 19:30
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/06/2020 7:40 PM
On the same day that President Alberto Fernández announced the end of isolation as the main strategy to combat the coronavirus in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, the Ministry of Health reported
371 deaths and 11,786 new positive cases
this Friday
.
With the new report, there are 33,136
fatalities due to the pandemic
and 1,228,814 positive cases confirmed since the arrival of the virus.
Of the reported deaths in the last 24 hours, 208 are men and 160 women.
"In the last 24 hours, 34,727 tests were carried out and 3,177,564 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 70,026 samples per million inhabitants," the health portfolio report states.
The new data on the progress of the pandemic were released in a week marked by the announcement of the agreement to purchase 25 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, and the debate on whether vaccination will be mandatory.
Precisely, Fernández maintained during the morning a communication with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to advance with the negotiations.
Also in the morning the president met, as he usually does before each announcement, with the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof.
After more than eight months of quarantine in the AMBA, Fernández agreed with Rodríguez Larreta and Kicillof the end of the Preventive and Obligatory Social Isolation (ASPO) to give way to social distancing, which already governs much of the interior of the country.
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