05/10/2021 17:06
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/10/2021 5:29 PM
Hours after the detection of two other variants of the coronavirus in the country was confirmed, the Government confirmed this Monday
17,381 new cases and another 496 deaths
from covid-19 in Argentina.
The number of fatal cases rose again after 170 were reported on Saturday and 283 on Sunday over the weekend.
The number of critically ill patients admitted to intensive care increased for the third day in a row and now stands
at
5,357
nationwide.
The occupancy of critical beds, a variable closely followed by health authorities, stands at
77%
in the AMBA.
At the national level it amounted to
69.2%
, the
highest
figure
in
the second wave of the pandemic.
According to the daily published part of the Ministry of Health, the provinces uploaded
69,879
tests to the national system.
The positivity rate for the day - which measures how many of the swabs had the virus - was
25.6%
.
With 3,165,121 infections, Argentina ranks
11th
among the countries with the highest number of accumulated positive cases since the beginning of the global health crisis.
If the incidence of infections per million inhabitants is considered, the country ranks
40th
with a rate of 69,106 per million.
However, due to the effect of the second wave, the cut of the last week places it in
8th
place, according to the site Our World in Data.
Circulation controls continue as part of the measures to contain the second wave of coronavirus.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
With the data of this Monday, fatal cases reached 67,821, so Argentina remains in the
14th
step globally.
And it is
8th
in the number of new deaths per million inhabitants, taking into account the average of the last 7 days.
This Monday the Ministry of Health reported that for the first time the Indian and South African variants of the coronavirus were detected in Argentina.
They were found in samples taken from travelers who returned from Europe and had tested positive in Ezeiza.
"But this is the first time that we have found the variants B.1.617.2 and B.1.617.1 (originally isolated in India) and B.1.351 (originally isolated in South Africa)," said Analía Rearte, National Director of Epidemiology and Information Strategic of the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
v 1.5
Coronavirus in Argentina
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Source:
Ministry of Health |
Johns Hopkins
Infographic:
Clarín
At dawn, a new Aerolineas Argentinas flight arrived in Argentina that brought from Russia a shipment of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus.
As confirmed by the Government, there are
500 thousand doses
, all of component 1.
The arrival in Ezeiza was at 1.14 am this Monday.
With this new shipment, Argentina received a total of 12,198,250 doses of the different vaccines against Covid-19.
For the next few hours, the departure of a
new plane
bound for Moscow is expected to look for a new batch.
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Deaths from coronavirus
in Argentina
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Source:
Ministry of Health |
Johns Hopkins
Infographic:
Clarín
According to the latest update of the Public Vaccination Monitor, 11,337,571 doses were distributed to the provinces, of which 9,122,759 were applied.
So far, just over 1.4 million people received the two injections that complete the vaccination schedule.
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