06/20/2021 17:01
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 06/20/2021 18:01
This Sunday the Government confirmed
10,395 new cases
of coronavirus in Argentina.
It is the
lowest
figure
in two and a half months.
Thus, a trend deepened: Covid-19 infections
fell by 37%
in the country from the peak recorded four weeks ago.
The Ministry of Health also reported
another 301 deaths
from the pandemic, according to data provided by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
Since April 4, when 9,955 positives were reported, there has not been such a low number of infected in the country.
In Argentina, more than 15.8 million coronavirus tests were carried out since the beginning of the pandemic.
Photo: Maxi Failla
The daily average of new infections is now
20,657
, based on the data reported by the Ministry of Health between Monday 14 and today.
It is
37.7%
less than the record registered in May, when the average reached
33,171
on Sunday the 23rd.
Two days earlier, on Friday the 21st, the weekly average had
risen to more than
30,000 infected and it took
15 days
to break that floor: just on Saturday, June 5, they dropped to 29,537.
Since then, they have been registering
a continuous decline
.
However, the figures are still
well above
the first wave.
The peak of that outbreak was registered on October 21, 2020, when an average of 15,051 daily positives was reached.
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Argentina thus accumulates
4,268,789
confirmed infections
and is the
eighth country
with the most positive cases worldwide.
On Saturday they had overtaken Italy, which is now ninth.
Meanwhile, with
89,043
deaths
, it is the
12th
worst affected nation since the start of the health crisis.
Less interned
For the sixth consecutive day, the number of patients with covid-19 admitted to intensive care decreased.
This Sunday there are
7,366
, which represents
603 serious cases less
than Monday's record (7,969).
The occupation of intensive therapies decreased at the national level and in the AMBA Photo: Ignacio Blanco / Los Andes
The occupation of critical beds for all pathologies is
72.5%
nationwide, significantly lower than the 74.6% reported on Saturday.
Meanwhile, in the AMBA the percentage fell below 70% after two months:
69.7%
.
There are currently
289,533
patients with a confirmed diagnosis of covid-19 who are developing the disease throughout the country.
Today's cases
In this Sunday's report the load of 49,306 tests was notified, a very low figure: it is
almost half
of the 91,000 that had been averaged in the previous 7 days.
The positivity rate - that is, how many of the people swabbed had the virus - was
21%
.
Only
two provinces
exceeded a thousand positives on the day.
Buenos Aires reported 2,830 and Córdoba, 1,537.
The detail is as follows:
Buenos Aires 2,830
City of Buenos Aires 771
Catamarca 281
Chaco 382
Chubut 146
Currents 431
Cordoba 1,537
Between Rivers 343
Formosa 436
Jujuy 169
La Pampa 94
La Rioja 151
Mendoza 197
Missions 141
Neuquen 214
Black River 102
Jump 231
San Juan 230
St. Louis 335
Santa Cruz 54
Santa Fe 773
Santiago del Estero 337
Land of Fire 34
Tucuman 176
Meanwhile, the provinces that reported the most deaths were Buenos Aires (127), the City of Buenos Aires (32), Neuquén (24), Córdoba (23), Mendoza (19), Santa Fe (17) and Entre Ríos (16 ).
Vaccines
This Sunday the second Aerolineas Argentinas flight left for China.
Along with the one that had left on Saturday, they will bring
two million doses of Sinopharm
.
This is the first shipment of the new contract for 6 million vaccines signed with the laboratory.
This week, 4 million vaccines against the coronavirus will arrive in the country.
Photo: Presidency
In addition, a new shipment from Oxford-AstraZeneca with a total of
1,134,000 doses
is scheduled to arrive from the United States this Monday
.
And on Friday another
1,189,160
will arrive
.
In other words, more than four million doses will be added during the week.
So far Argentina received
20,677,145 vaccines
, of which 20,630,190 were distributed to the provinces.
This Sunday morning
2.5 million
remained to be applied
.
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor,
14,397,649
people received at least one vaccine against covid-19 throughout the country.
This represents
31.4%
of the population, out of a total of 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
According to the data published in the Public Vaccination Monitor,
3,563,177
of those vaccinated also received the second dose with which the immunization
schedule
is completed.
Currently, in the 24 jurisdictions the immunization of the first segments of the "general population" has begun, made up of people under 60 years of age who do not have risk factors.
In the Province of Buenos Aires, this weekend the vaccination without previous shift was launched for those over 55 years of age.
On Saturday, on the first day,
more than 16,000 people
attended to get immunized
, according to the Buenos Aires Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak.
The second wave
Despite the drop in the number of cases, the country remains the
fourth
with the highest number of new infections in the world, behind India, Brazil and Colombia.
When looking at the incidence with respect to the population, the country is in sixth place, with 465 infected daily per million inhabitants.
Ahead are two countries in the region Uruguay (3rd) and Colombia (4th), in addition to Seychelles, Mongolia and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
After having a strong growth in the first days of June, the death toll begins to show a decline.
In any case, it still remains within the highest levels of the pandemic.
In the week prior to today's report, 3,681 deaths were reported;
525 per day.
Argentina's daily average of deaths is now the
fourth highest globally
.
India, Brazil and Colombia remain in the first two places.
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