05/17/2021 17:05
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/17/2021 17:30
While evaluating the possibility of imposing a "strong closure" to the circulation from the weekend, the Government confirmed this Monday
28,680 new cases
and another
505 deaths
from coronavirus in Argentina.
It is the
third highest daily number of infections
since the beginning of the pandemic, surpassed only by 29,472 on April 16 and 29,145 on April 20.
However, the high figure was increased because the province of Formosa carried out - for the second consecutive day - backlog of data.
This Monday it reported
5,630 infected
, while in the entire health crisis it accumulated 13,796 reported to the national system
For the tenth consecutive day,
the number of
critically
ill patients
admitted to intensive care increased again.
According to the official part of the Ministry of Health, this Monday it reached a record of
5,690
(
5,538
had been reported on Sunday).
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The occupancy of critical beds is
75.7%
nationwide and
69.7%
, both percentages with a slight increase in the last 24 hours.
Thus, there
are now
3,335,965
infected and
71,027
deaths since the start of the pandemic.
During the last 24 hours, 91,456 tests were uploaded to the system, with a high positivity rate:
31.3%
.
It is more than triple the 10% recommended by the WHO.
Globally
In full development of the second wave, Argentina is the
fourth country
with the most daily infections today.
The average for the last 7 days - from May 10 to 16 - was
22,792
.
This figure is only surpassed by India (which averages 328,984 cases and suffers a devastating advance from the health crisis), Brazil (63,207) and the United States (33,212).
Control of coronavirus to travelers who return to the country at the Ezeiza airport.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
If the incidence of cases in relation to Argentina is taken, it is
fifth
globally, with 504 infected daily per million inhabitants.
With a detail: the four countries that surpass it (Seychelles, Maldives, Bahrain and Uruguay) have less than 4 million inhabitants, so their rates soared more before the new outbreak.
The data of new deaths are also worrying if you look at the photo from the last week.
Argentina is the
fifth country
with the most fatal cases per day with an average of 456. In this case, in addition to India, Brazil and the United States, it is surpassed by Colombia.
But if you look at the data in relation to the population, it is the
second
globally with 10 daily deaths per million inhabitants, behind Uruguay (13.86).
The restrictions
This Monday, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti warned that the second wave registers "
an exponential and unusual growth
of cases throughout the country, very large and in a very short time in many parts of the national territory, which puts strain on our health system , even though it was strengthened. "
The statement came while the Government is evaluating the possibility of implementing a "strong closure" for a limited time to try to contain the advance of the pandemic.
At a minimum, official sources anticipated, the current measures will be renewed and could add some more forceful ones.
The objective?
Reinforce the drop in circulation and discourage even more social gatherings
.
The City is also analyzing the possibility of implementing
a "shock measure"
after detecting that cases have increased again, that days ago they had been plagued and had even shown a slight decrease.
The Government is analyzing the possibility of imposing new restrictions on traffic from the weekend.Photo Juano Tesone
Even in the Buenos Aires Government they do not rule out the possibility of suspending face-to-face classes, after maintaining them during the current one of the last two DNU that had canceled them in the AMBA.
Santa Fe is also analyzing raising the restrictions after this weekend a situation of collapse occurred in the main cities of the province (such as Rosario, Santa Fe and Rafaela) that were left without free critical beds.
Vaccination
Argentina has received
12,698,250
vaccines so far.
Of that total, 6,535,850 are from Sputnik V (5,475,690 from the first component and 1,060,160 from the second component);
4,000,000 from Sinopharm;
580,000 from Covishield / AstraZeneca;
and 1,082,400 from AstraZeneca that were received through the COVAX mechanism of the World Health Organization.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, announced that this month
almost 5 million more
will arrive
from AstraZeneca (3,960,000 for the direct contract with the laboratory and 861,600 through the Covax mechanism).
According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor, until this Monday morning 11,617,472 doses were distributed to the provinces and
10 million applications were exceeded
.
A total of 1,952,121 people received the two injections that complete the immunization schedule.
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