11/21/2020 19:03
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/21/2020 7:18 PM
The Ministry of Health of the Nation confirmed this Saturday 112 deaths from coronavirus and 7,140 new cases in the last 24 hours.
Argentina, fourth in the tragic ranking of the number of deaths per million inhabitants, accumulates 36,902 fatalities since the start of the pandemic and 1,366,182 infections.
According to the report, in the last hours 64 men and 48 women died.
The province of Buenos Aires continues to lead in the number of new daily infections and also in the accumulated, with 1,894 cases in the last 24 hours and 604,016 since the start of the pandemic.
According to the cases reported in the last hours, Santa Fe 1,254 and 137,263 follow;
Córdoba with 888 and 108,774;
and Tucumán, 257 and 63,136
Situation # COVID19 in Argentina
Confirmed: 7,140 |
Total: 1,366,182 Deaths
: 112 |
Total: 36,902
ICU bed occupancy: 4132
Percentage of total adult ICU bed occupancy:
- Nation: 57.3%
- AMBA: 59.2%
Full report: https://t.co/Cd6VVKKL6o pic.twitter.com/XfiPgmIxtV
- Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) November 21, 2020
In the last 24 hours, 39,055 tests were carried out and 3,661,948 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 80,700 samples per million inhabitants.
Regarding the level of occupation of the so-called critical beds, it was reported that there are currently 4,132 coronavirus patients hospitalized in intensive care units.
Occupancy at the national level is 57.3% and scales to 59.2% in the AMBA.
The Government expects that the first doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine will arrive in the country next month and they predict that in March those of the AstraZeneca laboratory and the University of Oxford that will be manufactured in the country will be available.
This was said by President Alberto Fernández in different interviews throughout the week, and insisted that the first to be vaccinated will be health and safety workers and those considered risk groups.
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