11/14/2020 6:00 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/14/2020 6:00 AM
With the 251 deaths reported in the daily part on Thursday, Argentina
surpassed Chile in the number of coronavirus deaths per million inhabitants
.
Thus, it was among the three countries with the highest rates in Latin America, behind Peru (1,058 deaths per million) and Brazil (774).
This Friday, there were 264 deaths, with which the country adds a total of 35,045 deaths from coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
In this way Argentina now has 773 deaths per million inhabitants and
is the 7th country with the most deaths according to this indicator
, immediately behind the aforementioned Brazil.
Chile has 769 fatalities of Covid-19 per million inhabitants, according to the details of the Worldometers site.
In recent weeks, our country has been registering an increase in this parameter.
After having surpassed Sweden (on October 18) and Italy (on October 22), on Monday, November 2, Argentina went to the United Kingdom, two days later it left Mexico and Ecuador behind, and last Friday it reached
a The number of deaths from Covid-19 per million inhabitants is higher than that of the United States
, one of the countries most questioned for its strategy against the pandemic.
President Alberto Fernández relied on slides in many of the press conferences in which he compared the Argentine situation with that of other countries.
On several occasions, since the start of the quarantine on March 19, President Alberto Fernández resorted to
slides or graphs to show the reality of the country regarding the pandemic
compared to other countries.
One detail: repeatedly the aforementioned states had to
go out to rectify
what was affirmed by the Argentine president, as happened with Chile - precisely the country that Argentina has just displaced in the ranking - on May 24.
"
I must rectify an error in information published by @CasaRosada
in a recent press point. The death rate in Chile is 3.5 x 100 thousand inhabitants and not 98.5 as indicated in the following graph that they showed," Nicolás had written on Twitter Monckeberg Díaz, Chilean ambassador to Argentina.
That tweet was followed by a thread, in which Monckeberg Díaz remarked: "As is evident, the number of confirmed infected by each country is directly related to the number of tests applied. Chile, to date, makes more than 17,500 per MM of inhabitants,
being the country with the highest rate of diagnoses in the region ".
And he closed by saying: "In honor of the neatness, it is necessary to clarify the data recently given on the national chain."
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Two weeks before the diplomatic interdict with Chile, on May 11, Sweden had already answered Fernández when the president referred to how the Scandinavian country had faced the pandemic.
"When they tell me to follow the Swedish example,
the truth is that what I see is that Sweden, with 10 million inhabitants, today has more than 3,000 deaths from the virus
. Had we followed that example, today we would have 13,000 dead. If we open the economy we are going to finish like Sweden finished, "he said.
The Swedish Embassy in the country picked up the glove and replied: "
It is difficult to make direct comparisons
between the containment measures that different countries have adopted. Sweden has higher Covid-19 mortality rates than some other countries that have imposed quarantine. , and lower than others who have also imposed quarantine. "
While Argentina is in position number 7, with 773 deaths per million inhabitant,
Sweden is far, in position 18, with 609 deaths (total 6,164 deaths)
.
One by one, the slides that Alberto Fernández showed
At the end of May, a month with many diplomatic short-circuits, the President
again made a mistake that represented a public challenge
that resounded in the region.
At that time, Brazil had more than 360,000 cases due to the pandemic and the deaths totaled 22,666.
It was already the second most affected country in the world.
But Itamaraty
did not let the slip of the Argentine film pass
.
"During the presentation about # Covid_19 in #Argentina, @CasaRosada reported that the mortality rate in #Brasil would be 94.3 / 100 thousand inhabitants," began the tweet from the Brazilian embassy in Argentina, led by Sergio Danese.
"
The real rate is 10.5 / 100,000 inhabitants, as can be seen
on the website of the @minsaude of Brazil: https://covid.saude.gov.br", the government of that country corrected.
Today Brazil totals 40,769,774 per million inhabitants.
On July 17, in a new announcement of mandatory, preventive and social isolation, Fernández pointed out that "(so far) the effort has not been useless" and argued that "no matter how much isolation hurts, it is what it allows us to"
not to fall into a "crisis like the one in the Basque Country
, where it was necessary to choose who lived and who died", because the health system was overloaded.
The reference to that area of Spain was surprising.
Which was the reason?
It was not the first time that the Argentine president spoke of the Basque Country.
He heard that case from one of the infectious diseases specialists who advises him on the expert committee.
And as it had been happening, the answer came and the controversy ensued.
A day later, on July 18, the government of the Basque Country rejected the president's statements and
demanded a "public and immediate rectification" from the president
.
The President of the Basque Government, Iñigo Urkullu Renteria, sent a formal protest to the Foreign Ministry, through the Delegation in Buenos Aires to point out
"the falsehood of such an assertion
.
"
And even the Federation of Argentine Basque Entities (FEBA) took action on the matter: "
It is difficult for us to understand why this mention has been made that
unfair, painful and unfortunately damages our second homeland."
Spain, which is one of the European countries that is suffering the most from the second wave - outbreak - is fifth, with 865 deaths per million inhabitants (totaling 40,461).
The most unusual thing was that even the governor of Mendoza, Rodolfo Suárez, had to go out to the Alberto Fernández crossing on August 1, regarding the controversial filmstrip.
"It is important to note that we are making decisions based on Mendoza's data, and
not on the inaccurate assessments that the President presented about our province,
" the Cuyo president had tweeted, after the last presidential announcement on July 31, when He had pointed out "the growth in the number of infections in Mendoza when it went from isolation to social distancing."
Months passed, Argentina maintained the longest quarantine in the world and the scene turned 180 degrees.
The contagion curve accelerated, gained intensity throughout the country and the number of deaths also increased.
With more than 1.2 million infected and exceeding 34 thousand deaths,
Argentina today is close to those countries - some already surpassed - that seemed light years away
.
Just as infectologists stopped appearing at press conferences,
so did the slides became extinct.
There was no need to keep comparing yourself to other countries.
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