07/18/2021 4:59 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/18/2021 5:48 PM
The Government confirmed this Sunday
6,915 new cases
of coronavirus in Argentina: it is
the lowest figure
since the start of the second wave.
In addition, another
115 deaths
were reported
.
Another outstanding fact was the low rate of positivity of the tests:
13.1%
.
In this way, Argentina reached
4,756,378 infections
and
101,549 deaths
since the start of the pandemic.
The numbers were published this afternoon by the Ministry of Health in the health report prepared with the information provided by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
In Argentina, more than 18 million swabs were carried out to detect cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
Photo Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes
Although lower figures are usually reported on weekends -particularly on Sundays- it is necessary to go back to the
end of March
to find a lower number of infected than today.
More precisely on Monday the 22nd, when there were 6,401 positives.
That is, before the long weekend of Easter, when the contagion curve accelerated.
According to the official report, there are currently 260,134 people suffering from the disease with a diagnosis, of which
4,783
are in intensive care.
The occupation of critical beds for all pathologies is
60.7%
nationwide (58% in the AMBA).
This Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkings University, the world exceeded 190 million infected with covid-19.
The occupancy of intensive therapy beds is low nationwide and is currently at 60%.
Photo: EFE
In this global context, taking the statistics accumulated since the beginning of the health crisis, Argentina remains in
eighth place
among the nations with the highest number of infected.
In addition, it is the
eleventh
country to exceed 100,000 fatal cases.
The other ten are the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and France.
A current X-ray of the second wave shows that Argentina has the
10th highest average of new infections
(15,763 per day, according to the average of the 7 days before today) and the
sixth highest average of daily deaths
(422, also with data from July 11 to 17).
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The cases of the day
In the last 24 hours, the provinces uploaded 52,894 tests to the national system, so the positivity rate was
13.1%, very close to the measure recommended by the WHO (10%)
.
In line with the national trend, the Province and the City of Buenos Aires reported the least amount of positives in more than three months.
The detail throughout the country was as follows:
Buenos Aires 1,711
CABA 685
Catamarca 194
Chaco 264
Chubut 78
Currents 387
Cordoba 473
Between Rivers 206
Formosa 221
Jujuy 189
The Pampas 183
La Rioja 128
Mendoza 125
Missions 8
Neuquen 126
Rio Negro 180
Jump 199
San Juan 62
St. Louis 203
Santa Cruz 28
Santa Fe 663
Santiago del Estero 335
Tierra del Fuego 15
Tucuman 272
As for the deceased, Buenos Aires (50), Mendoza (15) and Chaco (12) are the provinces that made the most notifications this Sunday.
Vaccines
This afternoon a new Aerolineas Argentinas flight departed to
bring Sinopharm vaccines to the country
.
It is the eighth of the 10 services with which it is planned to transfer a total of 8 million doses during July.
The Airbus 330-200, registration LV-FVI, is scheduled to return to Argentina on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m.
Meanwhile, this Monday afternoon the seventh plane of this operation will arrive in Ezeiza.
In addition, Minister Carla Vizzotti anticipated that
1,349,700 doses of AstraZeneca
will arrive
from Mexico, due to the bilateral agreement for the manufacture of vaccines whose active
ingredient
is manufactured in the country.
More than 21 million pseronas received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Argentina.
Photo: Maxi Failla
So far Argentina has received
36,291,730 doses
, of which 11,868,830 correspond to Sputnik V, (9,375,670 for component 1 and 2,493,160 for component 2);
10,608,000 to Sinopharm;
580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield, 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca through the WHO COVAX mechanism;
7,790,900 to those of AstraZeneca and Oxford whose active principle was produced in Argentina, 3,500,000 to Moderna donated by the United States.
According to the latest official data, as of this morning 30,295,044 doses had been distributed to the provinces, of which
3 million
still
remain to be applied
.
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, 21,872,715 people received at least one vaccine against covid-19.
This represents
47.7%
of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
Within the total number of vaccinated, 5,367,111 people are included who also received the second dose with which the immunization schedule is completed.
That is,
11.7%
of the population.
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