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Coronavirus in Argentina: 15,012 new cases and another 170 deaths in the last 24 hours

2021-04-27T06:41:41.434Z


According to the Ministry of Health, there are already almost 5,000 patients with covid-19 in intensive care. The positivity rate went up again.


04/25/2021 17:05

  • Clarín.com

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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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Coronavirus in Argentina

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Source:

Ministry of Health |

Johns Hopkins

Infographic:

Clarín

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.

DD

Source: clarin

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