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Coronavirus in Argentina: 19,423 new cases and 457 other deaths confirmed in the last 24 hours

2021-07-08T00:07:31.043Z


It was reported by the Ministry of Health. The number of covid-19 patients in intensive care continues to decline.


07/07/2021 4:59 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 07/07/2021 18:27

In the midst of the development of the second wave of the pandemic, the Government confirmed this Wednesday 

19,423 new cases

and another

457 deaths

from coronavirus in Argentina.

In addition, it was reported that

the number of patients in intensive care

continues to decline

The data were published by the Ministry of Health in its usual daily part, prepared based on the numbers reported by the provinces in the last 24 hours.

With these figures, the country has

4,593,763

confirmed

positives

and reached

97,439 deaths

from covid-19.

In recent weeks, the occupancy of beds in intensive care has decreased nationwide.

Photo: AFP

At the global level, taking the statistics accumulated since the beginning of the health crisis, Argentina remains in the

eighth place

among the countries with the highest number of infected people detected and the

eleventh

among the nations with the most fatal cases.

There are currently 289,846 people suffering from the disease in the country, of which

5,546

developed serious

symptoms

and are in

intensive care

.

That number showed

a decline in the last 24 hours

, after a total of 5,642 was reported on Tuesday.

The figure is even less than the 7,969 registered on June 14, when the number of patients in ICU beds peaked.

The occupancy of critical beds remained at

64.6%

nationwide and fell slightly to

62.1%

in the AMBA (on Tuesday, 62.2%).

The cases of the day

In the last 24 hours,

117,227 tests

were uploaded to the national system

, with a positivity rate of

16.5%

.

Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe and the City of Buenos Aires were once again the districts that reported the most positive.

The detail is as follows:

  • Buenos Aires 5,985

  • CABA 1,092

  • Catamarca 369

  • Chaco 693

  • Chubut 224

  • Currents 23

  • Cordoba 2,651

  • Between Rivers 773

  • Formosa 464

  • Jujuy 296

  • La Pampa 300

  • La Rioja 147

  • Mendoza 543

  • Missions 188

  • Neuquen 222

  • Black River 269

  • Jump 635

  • San Juan 328

  • St. Louis 405

  • Santa Cruz 119

  • Santa Fe 2,106

  • Santiago del Estero 678

  • Tierra del Fuego 28

  • Tucuman 885

Vaccines

The second of the 10 Aerolineas Argentinas flights that will bring 8 million Sinopharm vaccines from China during July departed this Wednesday.

This operation constitutes the first tranche of an agreement for 24 million doses.

In the first transfer, 768 thousand arrived on Sunday.

The plane that left today will arrive in Beijing at 00.15 on July 9, after making a stopover in Madrid.

After loading the batch of serums, he will begin the return -also with a stop in Spain- and is scheduled to arrive in Ezeiza at 7:10 p.m. on Friday.

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Source:

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Chart:

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Infographic:

Clarín

"The remaining 8 will repeat the same flight plan in the next few days until the ten announced flights are completed," confirmed Aerolineas Argentinas through a statement.

Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign, Argentina received

27,615,730 vaccines

, of which 11,265,830 correspond to Sputnik V, (9,375,670 for component 1 and 1,890,160 for component 2);

6,768,000 to Sinopharm;

580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield, 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca through the WHO COVAX mechanism, and 7,057,900 to those of AstraZeneca and Oxford, whose active principle was produced in our country.

According to the latest official data, until this morning 25,911,143 doses had been distributed, of which

2.5 million

still

remain to be applied

.

According to official data, half of those over 18 have already received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

A report released by the Government, based on data from the Our World in Data site, indicates that Argentina is among the 20 countries that applied the most doses in the world.

With 22.81 million administered until yesterday, it is in

18th

place. 

According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, 18,577,434 people received at least one vaccine against covid-19.

This represents

40.5%

of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.

The Government reported that more than half of those over 18 years of age already have an injection.

Within the total of vaccinated, 4,739,979 people are included who also received the second dose with which the immunization schedule is completed.

That is,

10.3%

of the population.

DD

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Source: clarin

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