12/18/2020 6:47 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/18/2020 6:52 PM
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Friday that 138 deaths from the coronavirus were registered and 7,002 new cases were identified, while President Alberto Fernández announced that the restrictions to try to contain the spread of the virus will continue until January 31.
"In the last 24 hours, 138 new deaths were reported, there are 66 men and 69 women. At the moment the number of deceased people is 41,672," they detailed.
The health authorities added that "today 7,002 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed."
"With these records, there are 1,531,374 positives in the country, of which 1,356,755 are recovered patients and 132,924 are active confirmed cases," they indicated.
"In the last 24 hours, 32,002 tests were carried out and since the beginning of the outbreak, 4,437,322 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out, which is equivalent to 97,788 samples per million inhabitants," they remarked.
The data coincide with the new extension of the insulation measures.
President Fernández confirmed this Friday that the mandatory, preventive and social distancing scheme (Dispo) will continue until January 31 next.
Meanwhile, from the Casa Rosada it was reiterated that next week the first batches of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine will arrive in the country, whose effectiveness was again questioned in the last hours because the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, acknowledged that it still does not count with certificates for its application in people over 60 years of age.
"The vaccine will be arriving, if the laboratories fight over the vaccine, there they are," said Fernández, after a week in which the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, spoke of "unacceptable" claims by the US company Pfizer when negotiating the doses that could reach the country.
The Head of State ratified that "shortly we will begin to vaccinate essential workers who are the most exposed and those who need it most with those who work in health and security forces" and then move forward with those who are most exposed. exposed "by age or prevalent diseases".
President Fernández also took advantage of an act he led this Friday to ask that the care for the Christmas and New Year celebrations be "deepened".
The current phase of distancing had been announced on November 27 and had a deadline this Sunday 20.
From the announcement of the first "quarantine", issued on March 19 until the new one, 9 months will have passed and, counting the one announced today, there were 17 extensions, all of them with varying degrees of restrictions and flexibilities.
In the current stage, only the cities of San Carlos de Bariloche (Río Negro) and the department of Puerto Deseado (Santa Cruz) remained in the phase of social, preventive and compulsory isolation (ASPO).
