12/19/2020 19:07
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/19/2020 7:20 PM
In its usual daily report, the Ministry of Health reported this Saturday
another 91 deaths and 5,795 new cases
of coronavirus throughout the national territory.
In this way, Argentina already has 41,763 fatalities and 1,537,169 positives.
With the exception of Formosa, all jurisdictions reported contagions.
The highest number was registered in the province of Buenos Aires, with 2,180, followed by Santa Fe (742), Capital Federal (501) and Chubut (322).
Further behind were Córdoba (262), Santa Cruz (254), Neuquén (215), Entre Ríos (210), Río Negro (204), La Pampa (203), Chaco (138) and Tucumán (106).
The report was completed by Corrientes (100), Mendoza (82), Tierra del Fuego (69), Salta (67), San Luis (31), Catamarca (29), Santiago del Estero (28), Misiones (24), San Juan (19), La Rioja (5) and Jujuy (4).
Situation # COVID19 in Argentina
Confirmed: 5,795 |
Total: 1,537,169 Deaths
: 91 |
Total: 41,763
ICU bed occupancy: 3,452
Percentage of total adult ICU bed occupancy:
- Nation: 54.7%
- AMBA: 59%
Full report: https://t.co/0lJi8fxJRg pic.twitter.com/4CMoyqjgas
- Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) December 19, 2020
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 this Friday, there were 17 extensions, all of them with varying degrees of restrictions and flexibilities.
At 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).
