01/06/2021 20:45
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/06/2021 8:47 PM
In its usual daily report, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Wednesday
another 191 deaths and 13,441 new cases
of coronavirus throughout the country.
In this way, Argentina already has 43,976 fatalities and 1,676,171 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of the new infections, 5,251 were registered in the Province of Buenos Aires, 1,511 in Santa Fe, 1,418 in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA) and 914 in Córdoba.
The epidemiological report also indicates 568 infected in Neuquén, 534 in Entre Ríos, 486 in Chubut, 461 in Santa Cruz, 402 in La Pampa, 381 in Río Negro, 274 in Chaco, 229 in Tucumán and 205 in Corrientes.
The report is completed by Santiago del Estero, with 181 positives, Tierra del Fuego (171), Mendoza (157), San Juan (113), San Luis (62), Salta (50), Catamarca (39), Jujuy (14), La Rioja (9) and Formosa (7).
According to the health portfolio, in the last 24 hours, 49,116 tests were carried out, with a
positivity of 27.3%.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, 5,050,350 diagnostic tests have been carried out for this disease, which is equivalent to 111,298 samples per million inhabitants.
Of the 158,147 people currently suffering from the disease, 3,521 remain hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU).
The occupancy of beds in the sector is 58.5% in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) and 54.3% in the rest of the country.
For her part, the Secretary of Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti,
called this morning to "pay attention and redouble efforts" in individual care to "reduce the transmission" of the disease, given the increase in recent weeks.
During one of the weekly reports on the situation, the official said that
so far 52,195 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine have been applied
in the 24 jurisdictions of the country and said that in the next few hours the second batch of 153,450 doses will start to advance with the plan. vaccination.
"On December 29 at 9 in the morning the vaccination against Sars-Cov-2 began in the 24 jurisdictions, to advance in this first stage with 300 thousand doses on the target population, which is health personnel between 18 and 59 years who work in intensive care or who are people who handle laboratory samples of respiratory virus, "he explained.
Vizzotti specified that "in large urban agglomerates, where a second wave may occur, some 146,250 doses have been distributed" and confirmed that until yesterday "the computerized system of the Ministry of Health registered 52,195 doses applied."
Morning Report We
share information on the events that have been reported from the application of the 39,599 doses of the Sputnik vaccine, of which 97.7% are mild.
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- Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) January 6, 2021
"We are working hard with the jurisdictions, and after a meeting in which the situation was analyzed with the heads of the immunization programs of all the provinces, it was agreed to distribute 153,450 remaining doses in more than 30 points of the 24 jurisdictions with a system of real-time tracking and monitoring with security personnel, so they will arrive this week, "he said.
Regarding the surveillance of vaccine safety, the national official explained that the system has existed for more than 10 years in Anmat, which reported
1,088 events in relation to
Covid-19
vaccines as
of January 3
, of which "97.7 percent is mild, not severe, and 92.5% is possibly related to the Sputnik V vaccine. "
"88 percent of the reports are due to fever, muscle pain or local reaction, there were seven events related to vaccination anxiety and a few others due to programmatic errors, but specifically 1,088 events were reported with 39,599 doses applied in 22 of the 24 jurisdictions and all were mild; they started between 6 and 8 hours after vaccination and lasted less than 24 hours, "he said.