06/11/2021 17:00
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 06/11/2021 5:11 PM
On the day that the national government confirmed that it will extend the decree with the restrictions, the Ministry of Health confirmed
689 deaths and 26,934 new positive cases
of coronavirus.
Thus, the country already has 84,628 fatalities and 4,093,090 infections since the start of the pandemic.
With these figures, Argentina is the ninth country with the most infected and the twelfth in number of deaths, after surpassing Iran in recent days.
Between last Monday and this Friday -on working days there is a greater load of tests and data-, 137,651 positives and 3,420 deaths were added.
In relation to the previous week, this is a decrease of 14.9% in cases, but an
increase of 15.6% in deaths.
Those interned in Intensive Care Units (ICU) once again
registered a new record,
with 7,839, surpassing the 7,827 mark of last Monday.
The location of beds is located at 76.2% in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) and 77.8% in the rest of the country.
Almost six months into the vaccination plan, only 3.1 million people (6.8% of the population) were immunized with both doses, while 12.2 million (26.6%) only received one.
So far, 17.8 million doses have reached the national territory, and another 934,200 vaccines from AstraZeneca are scheduled to arrive on Monday.
In addition, from Casa Rosada they confirmed an agreement with the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm for six million doses, of which two million would arrive this month.
Across the country, there are just over 3.1 million people vaccinated with both doses.
Photo Maxi Failla
The advice of the specialists
Before defining the new restrictions, the cabinet chief,
Sa
ntiago Cafiero
;
and the Minister of Health,
Carla Vizzotti,
met yesterday with the advisory committee of experts to assess the national health situation.
At that meeting, the epidemiologists who advise President Alberto Fernández described as "
alarming
" that the winter holidays are extended by 14 days as a result of the "mobility it would generate throughout the country", and the experts considered it a "prelude to the third wave ", for which they proposed to" separate "that instance into" shorter periods ".
According to the news agency
Télam
, the experts recommended to the Executive Branch to maintain "similar measures" to the current ones in the districts that are in epidemiological alarm.
At the meeting, the experts "defended the epidemiological traffic light and reiterated that there must be greater controls by the jurisdictions" in view of "the record of occupancy in beds in intensive care units."
Previously, Cafiero had received in his Casa Rosada office his colleagues from the province and the City of Buenos Aires, Carlos Bianco and Felipe Miguel, respectively, to analyze the epidemiological data in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) that make up both jurisdictions.
In that meeting, which lasted 50 minutes,
"the gradual decline"
in cases
was highlighted
, but it was agreed that "there is still a long way to go."
This week 400 thousand doses of component 2 of Sputnik arrived and 300 liters of the active component for its local production.
Official sources indicated that the possibility of
"going back to having periods of
"
isolation
"during the winter, that is, taking advantage of holidays and short weeks, is being considered."
They also remarked that, after those nine days of compulsory isolation, the measures "were effective" in reducing cases throughout the country, with the exception of Córdoba, which "exploded."
The national government is concerned about the health situation in Córdoba and also about the increase in cases in Chaco and Jujuy.