02/08/2021 23:33
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/08/2021 23:42
The Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires
announced on Monday its temporary closure for disinfection tasks, after
Ambassador Carlos Enciso, Consul José Luis Curbelo and Minister José Reyes
tested positive for Covid-19
.
Enciso and Curbelo showed symptoms during the weekend and are going
through a feverish picture
that requires medical attention.
All the embassy and consulate personnel underwent a rapid test in the last hours,
with negative results in all cases.
The poster announcing the temporary closure on the embassy website.
In the next few days they will repeat the study, according to the state Radio Uruguay, which also detailed that
the diplomatic headquarters will be closed until Wednesday.
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Monday that 5,154 new coronavirus infections were registered and 227 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
With these records, there are 1,985,501 positives in the country.
At the moment,
the number of people killed by Covid is 49,398.
Uruguay, meanwhile,
experienced a significant drop in cases
, about 400 in just one day, and this Monday registered 45,650 infected since the start of the pandemic.
Deaths reached 497.
A comparison with the number just two weeks ago shows a drop of around 2,000 cases, because on January 25 there were 7,508, according to the newspaper El Observador.
Montevideo and Canelones continue to be the most complicated departments
, and the entire country is located in the orange zone, according to the index that measures new cases averages of seven days.
The Uruguayan government announced at the end of January that it had bought 3.75 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine that will arrive in small shipments and progressively from March, through an agreement with the Pfizer / BioNTech and Sinovac laboratories.
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