01/05/2021 11:02
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/05/2021 11:03
A week after starting the application of the coronavirus vaccine in Argentina, the global data measurement organization Our World in Data, which depends on the University of Oxford, began to prepare the rankings with those countries that are already applying immunization.
One of the main compilers of statistics on the disease shows the position of Argentina in the period from December 29 to this Tuesday, on a map that is updated every 7 hours.
According to the parameter taken, the position of the country varies.
Thus, Argentina, one of the first in the world to begin vaccinating its population, was in seventh place this Tuesday according to the daily doses administered per million people.
That ranking is led by the United States, followed by Denmark, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Russia and Germany.
After Argentina appear Italy, Estonia, Canada, Poland, China, Mexico and France.
One of the rankings produced by Our World in Data.
In the ranking of every 100 people, however, the country ranked 15th this Tuesday, while it was 12th according to the number of doses administered, with just over 32,000, although with the data updated until 31st December.
According to published data, the countries with the highest number of immunized people per 100 inhabitants are
Israel, Bahrain, the United Kingdom and the United States
.
Another of the organism's rankings.
Last October, the agency had erased Argentina from its global count for "unclear" information.
"The official figures added by the Government are not of sufficient quality to correctly reflect the scope of the tests," Edouard Mathieu, one of the organization's members, had specified on Twitter.
At that time, the Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, spoke about this decision and admitted the error.
"Attentive to the expansion of the Federal Detect strategy, which implies an expansion of the diagnoses made, many of them in territorial operations, it was observed that in some jurisdictions the upload of data to the national health surveillance system (SNVS) is carried out prioritizing positive cases, "admitted the Ministry of Health through an official statement.
Fifty days later, the NGO once again included the country in the global records of infections, accumulated cases, development of the curve, rates per million inhabitants, deaths and tests.
Amid the strong expectations and also the mistrust generated by a certain lack of scientific information, on December 29 the operation to apply the first 300 thousand doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against Covid began simultaneously throughout the country. a stage dedicated exclusively to Health personnel.
The Russian vaccine began to be applied on December 29 in Argentina.
Photo: Mauricio Nievas
The national average coverage, based on the current availability of Sputnik V,
would be 76 percent if the goal were to vaccinate all doctors and nurses
.
Fifteen provinces match or are above that ratio.
Nine districts are below average.
The priority will be those who are in the first line of fire against the coronavirus.
The national government has almost closed an agreement with China through the Ministry of Health for the purchase of one million vaccines from the state company Sinopharm.
This million is part of the package of 30 million in total that the Alberto Fernández administration wants to buy from that country.
As
Clarín
learned
, this first million could be arriving in the second half of January.
The coronavirus pandemic left
more than half a million cases worldwide
during the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 86 million since the start of the pandemic, which also left more than
1.8 million deaths
throughout the world. world, according to data published by Johns Hopkins University.
JPE
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The agency 'Our World in Data' erased Argentina from its world count for "unclear" information