Coronavirus in Argentina: another 465 deaths and 17,261 new positive cases confirmed

07/16/2021 4:59 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 07/16/2021 17:04

The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Friday another

465 deaths and 17,261 new cases

of coronavirus.

Thus, the country reached 101,158 fatalities and 4,737,213 infections since the start of the pandemic.

Of the last notified deaths, 198 resided in the province of Buenos Aires, 44 in Santa Fe, 37 in Córdoba, 22 in Tucumán, 21 in Mendoza, 19 in Entre Ríos, 17 in the City of Buenos Aires, 14 in Salta, 13 in La Rioja, 12 in Chaco;

11 in Santa Cruz and San Luis;

nine in Chubut;

eight in San Juan and Santiago del Estero;

six in Río Negro and Jujuy;

four in Neuquén, two in La Pampa and one in Catamarca, Corrientes and Formosa.

Argentina remains the

eighth country with the most cases of Covid-19

, only surpassed by the United Kingdom (5.3 million), Turkey (5.5), France (5.8), Russia (5.9), Brazil ( 19), India (31) and the United States (34 million).

Regarding deaths, it is ranked 11th in the world ranking,

below the United States (624 thousand), Brazil (539 thousand), India (412 thousand), Mexico (235 thousand), Peru (194 thousand), Russia ( 146 thousand), United Kingdom (128 thousand), Italy (127 thousand), Colombia (114 thousand) and France (111 thousand).

Argentina this week exceeded 100 deaths from Covid-19.

Photo: Emiliano Lasalvia / AFP

According to the vaccination plan, 28,283,544 doses were distributed throughout the national territory, of which 26,511,672 were applied.

In this context, 21,317,004 people (46% of the country's population) received at least one dose, while

only 5,194,668

(11.3%) completed the immunization

schedule

.

The national government confirmed the arrival in the next few hours of 3.5 million vaccines from the

Modern

biotechnology company

donated by the United States.

The arrival of these doses will take place at dawn tomorrow in two Aerolineas Argentinas flights that have already started their return from the city of Memphis.

This arrival was a consequence of the signing by the Executive Power, on July 3, of a decree that made it possible to enable an agreement with the Moderna Inc. laboratory.The DNU that modified the Vaccine Law generated discomfort within Kirchnerism itself, including the deputy Máximo Kirchner, who asked "not to give in to foreign laboratories."

The province of Buenos Aires began vaccinating people over 35 years of age at train stations.

Photo Juano Tesone

The coronavirus vaccine developed by the American company was designed through messenger RNA technology so that the immune system learns to repel part of the virus protein, and it demonstrated a high rate of efficacy among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. .

So far, a total of 32,023,730 doses have arrived, of which 11,868,830 correspond to Sputnik V, (9,375,670 for component 1 and 2,493,160 for component 2);

9,840,000 to Sinopharm;

580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield, 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca through the WHO Covax mechanism, and 7,790,900 to AstraZeneca and Oxford, the active ingredient of which was produced in Argentina.