03/18/2021 17:10
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/18/2021 17:10
While health authorities express their concern about the arrival of the second wave of coronavirus and look askance at the advance of new variants of Covid-19 in the region, this Thursday
8,328 new cases and another 155 deaths
from the pandemic
were confirmed
in Argentina .
The data comes from the daily report prepared by the Ministry of Health, based on the data uploaded by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
Almost a year after the quarantine was decreed in Argentina, health authorities are closely monitoring the figures for new infections.
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Coronavirus in Argentina
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Source:
Ministry of Health |
Johns Hopkins
Infographic:
Clarín
The country has been among
the 15
for weeks
with the highest number of accumulated cases
since the beginning of the global health crisis.
This week, after having exceeded 2.2 million infected, it ranks 12th, according to the ranking produced by the Worldometer site.
President Alberto Fernández analyzed the health situation this Thursday in a videoconference with the governors of the entire country and the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
There they agreed to
strengthen border controls and discourage travel abroad
.
Sources de la Rosada added that the governors of the provinces with border crossings asked
"to continue with the closures at the borders"
, as well as to "reinforce controls on cargo transportation", for which they will meet again with Transportation in the coming days to analyze concrete measures.
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Deaths from coronavirus
in Argentina
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Source:
Ministry of Health |
Johns Hopkins
Infographic:
Clarín
At dawn on Friday, meanwhile, a new shipment of the
Russian Sputnik V vaccine
will arrive in the country
on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight.
It has not yet been reported how many vaccines will arrive.
What has already been confirmed, at least in the city and province of Buenos Aires, is that these doses will all be used in older adults.
This was anticipated by
Clarín
from the health portfolios of both jurisdictions.
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