05/26/2021 17:05
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/26/2021 17:09
On the first business day of the new confinement decreed to contain the second wave of the pandemic, the Government confirmed this Wednesday
35,399 new cases
and another 532 deaths from coronavirus in Argentina.
Another worrying fact is that there are
6,644 patients
with Covid-19 in intensive care, a record number that has been in permanent growth for 19 days.
The occupation of critical beds at the national level also reached its peak in the pandemic:
75%
.
In the AMBA it is located at 76.6%.
It arises from the daily part published this afternoon by the Ministry of Health, based on the data provided by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
In this way, the country has more than
3.6 million infected
since the beginning of the global health crisis and exceeds
75 thousand deaths
from covid-19.
Argentina exceeded 3.6 million infected since the beginning of the pandemic.
Photo: Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes
More vaccines
This Wednesday another
470,035 Sputnik V vaccines
arrived in the country
on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight.
The novelty is that this shipment
again brought doses of component 2 (80 thousand)
, although the majority (390,035) were again of 1.
In this way, the country received a total of
15,483,345 doses
against covid-19, of which 2,785,200 arrived in the last four days (1,080,000 from Sputnik V in two flights, 861,600 Astrazeneca from the COVAX mechanism also in two aircraft and 843,600 from the Astrazeneca-Oxford agreement).
Now the delivery of another
800 thousand AstraZeneca vaccines
by Mexico
is expected for the weekend,
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard anticipated on Tuesday.
It would be the second shipment of the delayed contract for 22.4 million doses, in which Argentina participates in the production of the active principle.
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In addition, the head of the Nation's Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, reported that the country
closed an agreement with
the Chinese laboratory CanSino Biologics, whose anticovid vaccine is applied in a single dose.
The CanSino vaccine was tested in the country with the participation of Fundación Hupedes.
However, it is a formula that
has not yet been approved by the Anmat
.
In addition, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti traveled to Cuba to see the development of the Abdala and Soberana 2 vaccines. "The science and technology of this country is very important. The results of phase 1 and 2 are very encouraging," he explained in dialogue. with the America channel.
As reported by the Government, in Argentina 13.3 million doses of the different vaccines against the coronavirus were applied until this Wednesday.
Photo: Ministry of Health
According to official data, published in the Public Vaccination Monitor, until this morning 12,644,854 doses had been distributed to the provinces, of which
11,331,066 were applied
.
A total of 2,452,575 people received the two injections that complete the immunization plan.
The second wave
The rate of infections accelerated after the long Easter weekend - first in the AMBA and then in the Interior - and the impact of new variants of the virus was evident, mainly that of Manaus, the United Kingdom and the Andean .
Last week the 30,000 daily cases were exceeded for the first time and on Wednesday a new record of 39,652 positives was registered.
The day before, the peak of deaths for one day had been reached: 745 (the majority, 488, in Buenos Aires).
Argentina is today the
third country
with the highest number of new infections in the world.
In the last 7 days -between Tuesday 18 and Monday 24-, the average per day was 30,746.
Controls continue for the new restrictions to circulate in the middle of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
This figure is only surpassed by India and Brazil.
In fourth place is the United States, which until the end of last week registered more cases than our country.
When seeing the incidence of this new outbreak with respect to the population, Argentina is
fifth
globally, with
680 infected daily per million
inhabitants.
The four that exceed it (Maldives, Bahrain, Seychelles 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.
Argentina is now the fifth country with the most fatal cases per day with an average of 469 (taking the data from the last week).
It is only surpassed by India, Brazil, the United States and Colombia.
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