08/15/2021 4:59 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/15/2021 5:14 PM
In the midst of a sustained decrease in the number of infected in Argentina, the Government confirmed this Sunday
3,727 new cases
of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
This is
the lowest figure in more than 150 days
.
In addition, 105 deaths were reported.
In this way, the country has
5,080,908 infections
detected and
109,041 deaths
since the beginning of the global health crisis.
The data comes from the health report published daily by the Ministry of Health, based on the reports made by the provinces.
A mobile testing unit tracks new coronavirus infections in the City.
Photo: Emmanuel Fernández
You have to go back more than 150 days to find a lower number of infections than today.
More precisely,
157 days
: on March 14 there were 3,697 reported infected.
Today's numbers are in a pronounced downtrend.
The daily average of new positive cases
fell almost 40%
in the last month.
Argentina remains the
8th
country with the highest number of confirmed infections and the
12th
with the most fatal cases since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the Worldometers site.
When analyzing the figures for the 7 days prior to today's part, the daily average of new infections was
9,736
.
At the peak of May it had reached 33,171, more than triple.
The average number of reported deaths per day was
234
- also with data from Aug. 8-14 - far from the record of 603 recorded on June 11.
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Vaccines
This Sunday the distribution of the first million Sputnik V vaccines packaged in Argentina by Richmond Laboratories will be completed in the provinces.
These are 994,500 doses of component 1 and 152,500 of component 2.
As reported by the Ministry of Health, it is now expected "the receipt of 2.2 million doses of AstraZeneca in the week of August 23" and another 8 million Sinopharm vaccines during this month.
As of this morning, 42,374,539 doses had been distributed to the provinces, of which
5.6 million remain to be applied
.
As of this Sunday morning, 42,374,539 vaccines against the coronavirus had been distributed to the provinces.
A total of 26,615,258 people received at least one vaccine.
This represents
58.1%
of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
Within the total number of vaccinated, 10,079,134 people are included who also received the second dose with which the immunization schedule is completed.
That is,
22%
of the population.
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