12/23/2020 20:06
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/23/2020 8:35 PM
While concern grows in the Government about the increase in coronavirus infections registered in recent days, the Ministry of Health reported
8,586 new positives and another 60 deaths
throughout
Wednesday
the country, in the last 24 hours.
"In the last 24 hours, 60 new deaths were reported, 35 men and 25 women. At the moment the number of deceased people is 42,314", reported the health authorities, while waiting for the arrival of the first doses of the vaccine in the country Russian Sputnik V.
They stressed that, with the new cases identified, the total number of infected amounted to 1,563,865 positives in the country, of which 1,384,277 are recovered patients and 137,274 are active confirmed cases.
The number of infections this Wednesday is the highest in the last month (there were 8,593 cases on November 25) and is extremely concerned about the appearance of a new strain of coronavirus and the arrival of the second wave of the pandemic.
"If we continue like this we will have trouble when the summer begins, not when it ends," warned the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, on the eve.
The head of the health portfolio added: “If we do not take care of ourselves and continue doing the same thing that has happened in the last 15 days, things will not improve, we are at risk of getting worse, and not when we thought it would be the case. second wave, but it can happen much earlier ”.
In the new health report it was detailed that in the province of Buenos Aires there were 3,467;
in Capital Federal, 690 infections;
in Catamarca, 18;
in Chaco, 236;
in Chubut, 308;
in Corrientes, 179;
in Córdoba, 575;
in Entre Ríos, 278;
in Formosa, 2;
in Jujuy, 6;
in La Pampa, 240;
in La Rioja, 17;
in Mendoza, 183;
in Misiones, 8;
in Neuquén, 234;
in Río Negro, 335;
in Salta, 51;
in San Juan, 147;
in San Luis, 22;
in Santa Cruz, 301;
in Santa Fe, 1,003;
in Santiago del Estero, 49;
in Tierra del Fuego, 111;
and in Tucumán, 126.
The usual daily report was known hours after the health authorities authorized "on an emergency basis" the use of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, developed by the Gamaleya National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of Russia.
Some 300,000 doses of this vaccine will arrive in the country in the next few hours aboard an Aerolineas Argentinas plane that departed this afternoon from Moscow.
Although it has not yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or by the European Medicines Agency, the Ministry of Health “has the Phase III Certificate” provided by the Gamaleya National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of Russia ”.
From Russia, the Secretary of Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti
, affirmed that the Argentine mission to that country is returning "to be able to start the next challenge, which is to implement the most important vaccination in Argentina."
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The Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR1061 that will bring the first 300 thousand doses of the vaccine took off at 23 (local time) from the Sheremetyevo International Airport, in the Russian capital, and its arrival in Ezeiza is scheduled for 11 on Thursday.
The aircraft stayed for 6 hours to comply with the vaccination loading process and customs procedures, and then return and land in Buenos Aires tomorrow, after 18 hours of flight.
From the health portfolio they specified to
Clarín
that the distribution of the doses to the entire country would be made between Sunday and Monday, so that that same Monday or at the latest on Tuesday they could begin to vaccinate.
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