02/02/2021 19:45
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/02/2021 19:47
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported 9,695 new cases of coronavirus and 177 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
The latest report on Monday had indicated that "34,947 tests were carried out and 6,226,585 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out since the beginning of the outbreak, which is equivalent to 137,219 samples per million inhabitants."
With a slow vaccination campaign and amid official concern about the delays of Russian vaccines scheduled for January and February, the Argentine government is finalizing details to receive this month from China a shipment of 1 million vaccines.
This would be a first shipment of a multi-million dose deal of the Sinopharm vaccine, which also requires two doses.
The delivery of one million would be an advance of the agreement that Alberto Fernández and Xi Jinping are carrying out for a millionaire volume.
The Secretary of Access to Health,
Carla Vizzotti
, reported that towards the end of January the confirmed cases of coronavirus were in "decline", with a "slowdown" of infections per epidemiological week since the beginning of the pandemic, which is "a good news "and evidence that the actions taken by the authorities and society" are showing their positive effects. "
Meanwhile, he pointed out that the "mortality curve has not increased," so "if we manage to stabilize the number of cases, we can hope that the death curve remains as stable as possible, it does not increase."
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