04/01/2021 17:07
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/01/2021 17:07
While the Government seeks to agree on new health measures to contain the advance of the second wave of the pandemic, this Thursday
14,430 new cases and another 83 deaths
from coronavirus
were confirmed
in Argentina.
It arises from the daily part published by the Ministry of Health, based on the data uploaded by the provinces in the last 24 hours in the Argentine Integrated Health Information System (SISA).
After having exceeded 2.3 million infections and 55 thousand deaths, Argentina remains among the
15 countries with the highest number of cases and deaths
accumulated since the beginning of the global health crisis.
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Coronavirus in Argentina
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Ministry of Health |
Johns Hopkins
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Clarín
The new part was known after a sequence of days with negative figures, which set off the alarms of the health authorities.
By Wednesday, 16,056 new infections had been reported, a number that became the highest in the last 5 months.
Health Minister Carla Vizzotti admitted her concern and said: "
We believe that we are
starting
the second wave
, with a sustained increase in cases."
The official affirmed that the productive activities with protocol "are not the source of infection", and that "social gatherings" are.
Health Minister Carla Vizzotti stated that "we are entering the second wave" of the pandemic.
Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros
Now the Government seeks to convince the City to reinstate the AMBA "formula" against the pandemic.
Alberto Fernández will try to agree on measures with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, as happened last year, when they jointly faced the first wave.
At Casa Rosada they admit that after Easter "there will be no margin for everything to continue the same."
As it transpired, in the three administrations there is a conviction of the need to advance first with measures that
do not affect economic activity
.
The exodus for Easter started on Wednesday evening and this Thursday it intensified.
Only in Mar del Plata some 180 thousand people are expected and the occupancy, according to estimates of the sector, would reach 70% in hotels, the same that was reached in Carnival when the health situation was more alleviated.
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Faced with the tourist movement for the XL weekend, the Buenos Aires Government reinforced its system of testing travelers.
The Costa Salguero center will reopen this Sunday - until Thursday 8, from 8 to 20 - and will expand the capacity of La Rural.
Between both venues, there will be 4,500 to 11,500 daily tests for tourists.
At night, the arrival of an Aerolineas Argentinas flight is expected to bring
a million doses
of the Sinopharm vaccine from China.
It is the highest figure that has been brought to the country so far in a single plane.
On Friday morning the arrival of another plane from Moscow is expected, the eleventh, which will bring more units of Sputnik V.
According to the latest official data, in the last hours
the 4 million vaccines applied
in the country
were exceeded
.
The majority (82%) to patients who received a single dose, following the new recommendation of the Ministry of Health to defer the second application.
The goal is to cover more people with at least one dose.
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