08/01/2021 4:59 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/01/2021 5:16 PM
While investigating whether there is circulation of the Delta variant of coronavirus in the country, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Sunday that in the last 24 hours
there were another 51 deaths and 6,083 new cases.
With these numbers,
the country accumulates 4,935,847 positives
since the first case of coronavirus was registered in the country, on March 3, 2020. While the total number of deaths amounts to 105,772.
Those of this Sunday are the lowest numbers of infections and deaths since last March 21, when 28 deaths and 4,032 positives had been registered.
According to the last part, there are currently 3,913 people hospitalized in intensive care.
This represents a percentage of 54.2% occupancy of therapy beds nationwide and 53% occupancy in AMBA.
Scheme for teenagers
The national government faces the month of August with its sights set on the immunization of adolescents with risk factors, which will begin next week, and on completing the scheme with the two doses for the rest of the population.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, announced that 300 more liters of component 2 of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus will arrive in the country next week from Russia, and estimated that "by the end of August, we will have 1.5 million second doses "of that immunizer produced in the country.
Last Wednesday, the Richmond laboratory reported that 500 liters of the second component of Sputnik V arrived in the country that "will allow to continue producing" more than 750 thousand doses to continue completing the vaccination schedule.
According to the laboratory, with this shipment, 760,000 doses of component 2 of the vaccine developed in Russia will be manufactured in Argentina, which "will soon be available" to society.
The Richmond Lab in Argentina is in charge, based on an agreement with the Gamaleya Institute and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), to produce the Sputnik V vaccine in the country.
Meanwhile, the Delta variant continues to worry.
Yesterday, Saturday, they found at least 80 cases of the Delta variant in five jurisdictions.
"The Delta variant has two characteristics that are of particular concern: it is highly contagious, even much more than all those that circulated in 2020, and to protect ourselves against it we need a complete two-dose vaccination scheme," said the immunologist and researcher of the Conicet
Jorge Geffner
, who urged to speed up immunization.
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