Daily record of deaths from coronavirus in Argentina: there were 537 in the last 24 hours

04/22/2021 17:05

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 04/22/2021 5:14 PM

In full advance of the second wave of the pandemic, this Thursday the daily record of deaths from coronavirus in Argentina was recorded.

The Government confirmed

537 deaths

in the last 24 hours.

Simultaneously,

27,216 new cases

were confirmed

, the third highest historical record in the country.

It arises from the daily part published this afternoon based on data uploaded by the provinces

in the last 24 hours

.

The new report is known in the midst of a rise in infections.

In the previous 7 days, the daily average settled at

23,627 positives,

well above the figures recorded during the first wave of the pandemic.

In fact, on no day in 2020 had they exceeded 18,500.

The positivity rate of coronavirus tests remains high in Argentina.

Photo: EFE

With more than 2.7 million infected and after exceeding 60 thousand deaths, Argentina remains among the

15 most affected countries

in both variables -in absolute numbers- since the beginning of the global health crisis at the beginning of last year.

The occupation of intensive care beds became one of the most critical points in the management of this second wave of the pandemic.

The City reached in the last hours a record in public hospitals:

71.1%

.

The Buenos Aires health portfolio reported that there are

323 occupied out of a total of 450

available for patients with covid-19 in public health centers.

The average age is

53 years

.

Thus, the record registered on August 13 of last year was surpassed, with 69% (312).

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Coronavirus in Argentina

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Source:

Ministry of Health |

Johns Hopkins

Infographic:

Clarín

In the Province of Buenos Aires, Minister Daniel Gollán affirmed that there is a slowdown in the growth of the case curve, but warned about the situation of the Buenos Aires ICUs.

"Not even the one with the most expensive prepaid in the country is guaranteed a bed" for intensive care if they need it, he said.

In the midst of the dispute between the Nation and the Province with the City over the restrictions, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti admitted that "cases are

not going to go down

."

"Unlike the first wave and the situation of the increase in cases in December, it is that we are with lower temperatures that favor infections and

the variants

that impact the transmission dynamics

are increasing

," he explained in radio statements.

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Departments with high epidemiological risk

"

Reason

growth cases

past two weeks vs the previous two.

»

Incidence

of accumulated cases,

in the last two weeks.

High-2 and Medium-2:

Less than 50 cases or very small populations.

Source:

Presidency of the Nation

Infographic:

Clarín

"I do not think we have the expectation of decreasing as in December. Yes, stop increasing. We must lower the number of cases, advance with vaccination and avoid mortality," he added.

Following the arrival of the last shipment of Sputnik V on Monday, Argentina had reached

8,932,600 doses

received.

This afternoon it was confirmed that

another million doses

of Sinopharm

will arrive in the next few days

. 

This Thursday the vaccination plan against the coronavirus continued in La Rural.

Photo: juano Tesone

The first 755,200 will arrive on two Aerolineas Argentinas flights -via Madrid- between Sunday the 25th and Monday the 26th. The remaining 244,800 will land in Ezeiza on Wednesday the 28th in a Lufthansa plane.

The novelty is that these vaccines will be used to complete the vaccination of those people who have already received the first dose of Sinopharm.

Until this Thursday, according to official data, 6,693,438 vaccines against covid-19 were applied in the country.

Only 842,206 people received the two injections that complete the immunization schedule.

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