Coronavirus in Argentina: there were 7,477 new cases and 155 deaths in the last 24 hours

02/23/2021 17:32

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 02/23/2021 5:43 PM

In the midst of the VIP vaccination scandal and awaiting the first delivery of vaccines from China, the Ministry of Health confirmed 7,477 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday and another 155 deaths in the last 24 hours.

With the reported infections, there are 2,077,288 positives in Argentina since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 1,877,898 are recovered patients and 147,820 are confirmed active cases.

The 155 deaths in the last hours (91 men, 61 women and 3 without data), the number of deaths from Covid rises to 51,510.

The

provinces with the most cases

in the last 24 hours and the accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic are the following: Province of Buenos Aires (3,403 - 867,274), City of Buenos Aires (828 - 228,378), Córdoba (827 - 156,803) and Santa Fe (394-214,782).

With

less than 100

recent

infected

are: Chaco (191 - 33,521), Neuquén (187 - 60,379), Chubut (174 - 46,406), Río Negro (170 - 51,743), Entre Ríos (144 - 44,572), Tucumán (138 - 79,055), Mendoza (131 - 66,542), Jujuy (119 - 20,282), Santa Cruz (117 - 35,430) and Misiones (110 - 7,719).

Meanwhile, the following provinces registered

100 or fewer

new

patients

: Salta (98 - 25,577), Corrientes (79 - 21,181), San Juan (71 - 15,061), La Pampa (63 - 18,224), Catamarca (62 - 7,438), Santiago del Estero (58 - 22,275), Tierra del Fuego (47 - 22,795), Formosa (32 - 1,168), La Rioja (23 - 10,070) and San Luis (11 - 20,553).

The new daily report comes

amid the scandal

over the VIP Vaccination at the Posadas Hospital and at the Ministry of Health.

A day after the government released a first list of beneficiaries, Alberto Fernández described the complaints as "a clown."

Vaccination against the coronavirus advances in older adults and health personnel in the different provinces and in the City of Buenos Aires.

Photo Andrea D'Elia

"The fact is serious enough for a minister of the stature of Ginés to have had to leave his post, but

let's end the clowning

. I ask prosecutors and judges to do what they should," said the President in Mexico, where is on a diplomatic tour.

Those words were in tune with the phrase he had told

Clarín

on Monday afternoon: "Everything that had to be done has already been done."

On the other hand, this Tuesday an Aerolineas Argentinas flight left for Beijing, from where it will bring to the country a shipment of 900 thousand doses of Sinopharm.

With the million doses that will arrive from China, 2.8 million doses of vaccines against covid-19 will have arrived in the country.

Photo Aerolineas Argentinas.

It is one of the developments in China, which must be kept at temperatures between 2 ° C and 8 ° C and was approved for emergency this Sunday by Carla Vizzotti.

In principle, the Ministry of Health had said that a million vaccines would be brought from China.

However, after the departure of the plane (it will make a stopover at the Barajas Airport), they clarified that it

will be 900 thousand.

The vaccines will be transported in the hold and, if necessary, also in the cabin of the Airbus A-330.

It is stipulated that they arrive

at Ezeiza airport

on Thursday at 22

.

With this shipment,

2.7 million doses

 against Covid-19 will be reached in Argentina.

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