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Coronavirus in Argentina: 14,402 cases and 187 deaths confirmed

2020-12-26T21:46:41.200Z


These are data from the usual report of the Ministry of Health. They correspond to the last three days because there was no report on the 24th and 25th for Christmas.


12/26/2020 18:33

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 12/26/2020 6:42 PM

The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported 14,402 cases of coronavirus and 187 deaths this Saturday.

In this way, and adding the infections that were not reported in the last two days due to the Christmas holidays, the country registers 1,578,267 positive cases and 42,501 fatalities due to the pandemic.

In the last 24 hours, 3,713 cases and 79 deaths were reported (43 men and 36 women), while on 24 and 25 10,689 infections and 108 deaths were reported.

In relation to intensive care beds, in the country the occupancy is 52.4%, while in the AMBA it rises to 55.8%.

Currently there are 3,262 people with coronavirus who require care in the so-called critical beds.

In addition, in the last hours 14,984 tests were carried out and since the beginning of the outbreak 4,661,855 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out, which is equivalent to 102,736 samples per million inhabitants.

Situation # COVID19 in Argentina



Confirmed: 3,713 |

Total: 1,578,267 Deaths



: 79 |

Total: 42,501



ICU bed occupancy: 3,262



Percentage of total adult ICU bed occupancy:



- Nation: 52.4%


- AMBA: 55.8%



Full report: https://t.co/sxXIdlPJ2e pic.twitter.com/RTU8nTJAc9

- Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) December 26, 2020

The new data is released a few hours after the start of the vaccination plan across the country with the first 300,000 doses of Sputnik V that arrived on Thursday.

“The distribution is going to be done between the weekend and Monday.

And on Monday or Tuesday, which is to be defined, start vaccination against coronavirus in all provinces at the same time.

That no one is cut alone ”, they informed

Clarín

from the Government.


The 300,000 doses of the Russian vaccine that arrived in Argentina this Thursday are distributed by the Andreani company, "according to the percentage of the target population."

The province of Buenos Aires and the City of Buenos Aires will take almost half of the doses: Buenos Aires, 123,000;

CABA, 23,100.

They have already been transferred to a warehouse in Avellaneda.

The Buenos Aires government headed by Axel Kicillof was one of the first to launch a website so that all the people who make up the highest risk groups and want to be vaccinated can register.

"Getting vaccinated against the coronavirus is also

an act of solidarity,

" Kicillof wrote to accompany the publication of the

vaccinetepba.gba.gob.ar

website

.

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Source: clarin

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