06/21/2021 4:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 06/21/2021 5:50 PM
In the middle of the long weekend, the Government released the new coronavirus figures in Argentina.
In the last 24 hours,
8,606
COVID-19
infections
were confirmed
, the
lowest
number
since the end of March
.
In addition, another
448 deaths
were reported
throughout the country.
Both numbers come out of the daily part published this Monday by the Ministry of Health, based on the data reported by the provinces.
The report had a very low test load:
39,764
.
Last week the average had been 91 thousand.
Today's number of infected is the lowest since March 28, when 7,208 were reported.
The average number of daily infections - taking the numbers from the last week - is
18,844
.
This represents
a 43% drop from
the peak recorded in May, when the average reached 33,171 on Sunday the 23rd.
There are currently 7,345 patients with covid-19 in intensive care throughout the country.
Photo: EFE
The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care has been falling for a week: this Monday there are
7,345
.
In total there are
277,070
people with the disease with a confirmed diagnosis.
The occupancy of critical beds is
72.5%
nationwide (the same as on Sunday) and had a slight rise in the AMBA where it went from 69.7% to
70.2%
.
Argentina accumulates
4,277,395
confirmed infections
and is the
eighth country
with the most positive cases worldwide.
Ahead are the United States, India, Brazil, France, Turkey, Russia and the United Kingdom.
In Argentina, more than 4.2 million cases of coronavirus have been detected so far.
Photo: Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes
Meanwhile, with a total of
89,490 deaths
, it is the
12th
worst affected nation since the start of the health crisis.
The cases of the day
The positivity rate this Monday - which measures how many of the people tested had the virus - was
21.6%
.
It is almost double the 10% recommended by the WHO, but the downward trend is consolidated after peaks of over 35% in May.
Buenos Aires reported 2,466 positive cases, the fewest in the second wave.
It was the
only province that exceeded a thousand infections
in the last 24 hours.
The detail is as follows:
Buenos Aires 2,466
City of Buenos Aires 791
Catamarca 173
Chaco 261
Chubut 96
Currents 175
Cordoba 844
Between Rivers 246
Formosa 387
Jujuy 148
The Pampas 158
La Rioja 187
Mendoza 252
Missions 111
Neuquen 99
Rio Negro 171
Jump 225
San Juan 231
St. Louis 328
Santa Cruz 51
Santa Fe 710
Santiago del Estero 231
Tierra del Fuego 1
Tucuman 264
Regarding deaths, the provinces that reported the most deaths were Buenos Aires (231), Neuquén (38), Córdoba (34), Tucumán (23), the City of Buenos Aires (21), Entre Ríos (17), Chubut (16) and Formosa (15).
More vaccines
This Monday the Ministry of Health reported that
half of those over 20 have
already received at least one vaccine against covid-19 nationwide.
In addition, almost 40% of those over 80 years of age achieved full coverage with both applications.
In the morning, a shipment of
1,134,000 doses of AstraZeneca arrived
that had been produced in Argentina and that were finished in the United States.
In addition, the first batch of the new contract signed with Sinopharm is scheduled to arrive at 19:00.
There are
768 thousand doses
.
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, another two planes will arrive with which two million Chinese vaccines will be completed.
Coronavirus vaccination continues in Mendoza Photo Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes
With the two shipments this Monday, the country will have
22,584,145 doses
of the different vaccines against the coronavirus since December.
As of this morning,
20,630,190 vaccines
had been distributed to the provinces
, of which
2.4 million
remain to be applied
.
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor,
14,504,810
people received at least one vaccine against covid-19 throughout the country.
This represents
31.66%
of the total population (including those under 20), out of a total of 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
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According to the data published in the Public Vaccination Monitor,
3,694,089
of those vaccinated also received the second dose with which the immunization
schedule
is completed.
The second wave
Despite the drop in the number of cases that has been registered in recent weeks, 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
457 new 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, 3,714 deaths were reported;
530 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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