Pablo Sigal
08/13/2021 12:00
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/13/2021 12:00
Subject to the
Manaus
spike
, the second wave of coronavirus was so strong in Argentina that the consequences are still felt today.
Although the peak of cases was exceeded ago
For
78 days
, on May 27, the effects of the tsunami make these lands still the ones with the
highest number of deaths per inhabitant every day
in the entire South American continent.
Only one island, Aruba, shows a rate slightly higher than Argentina, because in the last week it had
four deaths
from Covid and that overturns the balance in a population of 107 thousand inhabitants.
In the whole of America we are also preceded only by islands: Cuba, Bahamas, Saint Barthelemy, Martinique and Saint Martin.
This is the performance that our country can show today at a global level, despite the fact that the number of weekly deaths has
been decreasing
.
Between the last seven days and the previous seven there was a decrease in deaths of
19 percent
, having gone from 1,910 to 1,546.
Currently, the daily average is
220 deaths
.
The peak occurred on June 22, with
791
.
It is estimated that the death rate will continue to decline, given that although the number of daily cases remains on a plateau
above 10,000
, the occupation of intensive care continues to decline.
The latest record indicates
3,623 hospitalized
by Covid and a loose total occupancy in the AMBA,
below 50 percent
.
In the general ranking, Argentina is
ranked 24th
in number of deaths per million in the last seven days.
It ranks above Russia, South Africa, Iran, Tunisia, and Indonesia among the large countries.
The rest of those that precede it are
small states
, which with few deaths climb rapidly in the index.
Posters in Aruba, an island that surpasses Argentina in the daily death rate.
In the number of cases, Argentina fell less than in deaths:
8 percent
, registering 76,851 infections in the last seven days against the 83,477 it had had the previous week.
A weekly average of 10,978
.
Although the drop in this area is lower, the country is
ranked 42nd
among those with the most cases per million inhabitants in the last week.
The best location of Argentina in contagions within the world context (with respect to deaths) has not so much to do with its achievements (the interweekly variation was slight), but with the
ills of others
. Above is located most of the countries in which the
Delta variant
has entered into action. There appear the United States, France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Israel, among others.
In the latter countries, however, there is a
hopeful contrast
.
More cases would not be synonymous with more deaths, which would speak of the
power of vaccination
, what the world aspires to: a scenario of unavoidable infections mitigated with
robust immunization
of the population, so that the virus reduces its effect to a minimum. lethality.
To give an example, the United Kingdom had 2,895 cases per million inhabitants in the last seven days - and it continues to rise - but only 9 deaths per million.
Argentina added 1,546 cases per million and 34 deaths per million.
That is, there were
almost four times more deaths here
and 46.5 percent fewer cases.
Our country is still counting the deaths of the second wave, as a result of
not having been able to speed up
the vaccination campaign since the beginning of the year and only having hit the accelerator as of June.
The Buenos Aires minister Fernán Quirós already said it this week and his national counterpart, Carla Vizzotti, endorsed it: "If it had been vaccinated earlier, Argentina
would have fewer deaths
today
."
The Government seeks to vaccinate more before the arrival of the Delta.
Photo: Los Andes
The second wave in the country began on March 26.
By that date, the Government estimated that it would have
20 million doses of Sputnik V
and the first
batches of AstraZeneca
.
However, in the first month of the year an average of 10,000 doses per day was applied.
In the second, it went up to 30 thousand a day.
In March, at 70 thousand.
Argentina started April with some
3.3 million doses applied.
It was not until June, when the peak of the second wave had already been surpassed that the country - the provinces, with heterogeneous routes - was able to begin to exceed the mark of
300 thousand daily doses
.
The days that, until today, have been exceeded 400 thousand doses in 24 hours are counted on the fingers of one hand.
On March 26, when the second wave began, there were
55,235 deaths
from Covid in Argentina. With the part of this Thursday the total amount reached
108,569
. Almost half of all the victims of the pandemic in the country took place in the last four and a half months:
53,334
. It averages
395 per day
.
Today, although the daily death toll is
44 percent below
that average, the blows of the powerful storm that has been experienced continue to be more aggressive inside the borders than in the rest of the continent.
It is the photo of an Argentina that does not stop lifting up on the shore the wreck caused by Manaus, while waiting
with uncertainty for
the arrival of the Delta.
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