01/28/2021 7:55 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/28/2021 20:15
In the midst of the delay in the vaccination plan, the
Ministry of Health of the Nation
reported this Thursday that 9,471 new coronavirus infections were registered and 166 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
With these registries, there
are 1,905,524 positives in the country
, of which 1,693,146 are recovered patients and 164,777 are active confirmed cases.
Of the 166 new deaths in the last 24 hours, there are 98 men and 64 women.
At the moment
the number of people killed by covid is 47,601.
The health portfolio indicated that 3,607 are interned in intensive care units, with a percentage of occupancy of adult beds of
55.3% in the country and 62% in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
The province of Buenos Aires
led the number of daily cases with 4,175 positives, followed by the
City of Buenos Aires
with 1,101 infections.
They were followed by
Córdoba (678), Santa Fe (662) and Neuquén (463).
Earlier, at noon this Thursday, the Aerolineas Argentinas plane had arrived that brought
the third batch of Sputnik V vaccines
from Russia
.
"
We received our third flight from Russia that brought 240,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to the country.
20,000 of them will be for Bolivia. Thanks to the coordinated work between different government areas, we can fulfill this fundamental logistics task against Covid 19" , wrote the president of the flag airline, Pablo Ceriani, on Twitter to accompany a video of the landing of the plane.
The original plan was for 600,000 doses to arrive in the country on this flight, but
the delay in the production of the vaccine modified delivery times,
as recognized by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. de Gamaleya on Wednesday in a statement.
The Sputnik V vaccine delivery schedule that the Executive released some time ago began in December with the arrival of 300,000 doses and continued on January 16 with the arrival of 300,000 doses of the second component of the vaccine to the country.
By the end of January, always according to the original plan, another 4.7 million were expected to arrive, while another 14,700,000 are expected in February.
In total, they
count 20,000,000 doses of the Russian vaccine until July.
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