04/25/2021 17:05
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/25/2021 18:00
After a week in which high numbers of infections and another record deaths from coronavirus were registered, this Sunday the Government confirmed
15,012 new cases
of covid-19 in Argentina.
In addition, another
170 fatal cases
were reported
.
The number of infected represents a slight decrease (9%) compared to the previous Sunday, when there were 16,267.
In any case, the load of swabs to the system was the lowest since the Easter holidays:
43,550
.
It is 27% less than a week ago and almost half of what was tested on Saturday.
A notable fact is that the positivity rate jumped again, which measures how many of the people swabbed had the virus.
This Sunday it was
34%
, more than triple the 10% recommended by the WHO.
In recent weeks the occupancy level of the intensive care units in the AMBA has grown: Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
Another indicator closely followed by health authorities is the occupation of intensive therapies.
In the AMBA there was a small drop and stood at
76.6%
(on Saturday, 77.9%), taking into account all pathologies.
However, the number of covid-19 patients in ICU beds rose again: there are already
4,942
.
There are currently
281,073
people
suffering from
the disease with a confirmed diagnosis throughout the country.
The data comes from the daily part published this part by the Ministry of Health, based on the information uploaded by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
The detail by province
The list of new and accumulated infections is:
Buenos Aires
(6820-1244879);
CABA
(2701-327932);
Catamarca
(151-14025);
Chaco
(165-43607);
Chubut
(78-53934);
Corrientes
(193-36590);
Cordoba
(893-218524);
Entre Ríos
(220-59962);
Formosa
(120-4206);
Jujuy
(82-24344);
La Pampa
(220-25767) and
La
Rioja
(50-13073).
It is completed by:
Mendoza
(452-92296);
Missions
(129-15112);
Neuquen
(177-69351);
Rio Negro
(128-59838);
Jump
(55-33670);
San Juan
(59-21979);
San Luis
(607-34769);
Santa Cruz
(138-43650);
Santa Fe
(1143-265122);
Santiago del Estero
(234-29795);
Tierra del Fuego
(50-26046) and
Tucumán
(147-102413).
Regarding the deaths, they detailed that 138 were from the province of Buenos Aires (138), CABA (17);
Chaco (1);
Cordoba (2);
Jujuy (2);
Mendoza (5);
Santa Cruz (3);
Santa Fe (1) and Tierra del Fuego (1).
Peak Cases
With this new report, the week closed with an average
of 23,824
daily cases, if the data reported by the Government from Monday the 19th until today is taken into account.
Not only is it the highest record of the entire pandemic, but it marks an
important leap
compared to the numbers of the first wave, since in all of 2020 no day had reached 18,500 positives.
Between Thursday and Friday, two new national records for deaths were registered:
537
and
557
, respectively.
Thus, the 515 reported in October 2020, the peak during the first outbreak of the pandemic, were exceeded.
With more than 2.8 million infected and after exceeding 61 thousand deaths, Argentina remains among the
15 most affected countries
since the beginning of the global health crisis, taking into account the accumulated figures.
UTI beds and vaccines
The occupation of beds and respirators has become a critical point in the handling of the second wave in recent weeks.
This Sunday, the Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, reported that "
oxygen consumption
has
tripled
in the last ten days" and spoke of a saturation in production.
"In other countries, the production of oxygen was not enough. We are talking about preventing this, that the industry turns to sanitation, but also we must produce more oxygen. What used to be filled once a week, now is filled every two days. If you have a respirator, but you do not have oxygen, it is useless, "he said.
Days before the DNU expires and which established new restrictions on circulation amid the rise in infections, Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero said that
new measures will be defined
, but avoided giving details.
In addition, amid the tensions between the Nation and the City, he charged again against the Buenos Aires authorities.
He said that he was surprised that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta defended the continuity of face-to-face classes, because "there is a concrete reality which is that if you need to get a bed in the city of Buenos Aires for 15 days you have a problem; that is testimonial, it is not statistics. "
This Sunday the first of three flights will arrive in the country that will bring a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine.
In this first Aerolineas Argentinas plane, 384 thousand doses arrive.
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Another flight of the flag carrier is scheduled to arrive in Ezeiza on Monday with 371,000 more doses.
The third plane involved in the so-called "Operation Beijing" belongs to the Lufthansa airline and is scheduled to arrive in Buenos Aires just on Wednesday.
In this way, the Government aims to reach a total of
10 million vaccines
against the coronavirus
this week
since the start of operations.
According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor, until this Sunday
7,134,949 doses
were applied in the country
, most of them to people who received a single application.
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