08/17/2021 4:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/17/2021 4:58 PM
After the long weekend in which the lowest contagion figures of the second wave were reported, the Government updated the numbers of the pandemic in Argentina.
In the last 24 hours,
8,172 new cases
and another
300 deaths
from coronavirus were reported.
Since the beginning of the health crisis, the country has exceeded 5 million infections detected and 109 thousand deaths.
The part released this afternoon by the Ministry of Health, based on data provided by the provinces, is given after Sunday and Monday
the lowest numbers of infections since March were released
.
There were 3,727 and 3,636 new positives, respectively.
In Argentina, more than 5 million infections have been detected since the beginning of the health crisis.
Photo: AP
Despite the slowdown that occurred in recent weeks, Argentina remains the
8th
country with the highest number of infected people detected in the entire pandemic and the
12th
with the most fatalities, 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
8,456
.
This represented a decrease of
46%
in the last month.
At the peak of the second wave - recorded in May - it had reached 33,171, almost four times.
The average number of reported deaths per day is now 163 - also with data from Aug. 10-16 - far from the record of 603 recorded on June 11.
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Vaccines
Between Wednesday and Saturday,
another 2.6 million vaccines
against covid-19
will arrive in Argentina
.
In this way, according to the Ministry of Health, the 47 million doses received since December last year will be exceeded.
Most of the sera will be from the Chinese
Sinopharm
vaccine
.
In total, 2,304,000 will arrive on three flights, according to the following schedule: 819,200 doses on Wednesday, 716,800 on Thursday and 768,000 on Saturday.
These doses are part of the current contract with the Chinese laboratory, for a total of 24 million vaccines.
The first 8 million arrived in July, and these three shipments are part of the second tranche of 8 million scheduled for August.
The rest, as announced, should arrive in September.
This week another 2.6 million vaccines against the coronavirus will arrive in Argentina.
Photo: AP
Unlike the operation that was mounted last month, when 10 Aerolineas Argentinas flights made the transfers, this time they will arrive on Lufthansa planes.
On the other hand, this Wednesday 381,000 doses of the
AstraZeneca
vaccine will also be received
from Mexico.
According to the Ministry of Health, a total of 2.2 million doses of this serum is expected to arrive this month.
As of this morning, 42,786,414 doses had been distributed to the provinces, of which
5.7 million remain to be applied
.
A total of 26,708,012 people received at least one vaccine.
This represents
58.3%
of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
Within the total of vaccinated, 10,290,472 people are included who also received the second dose with which the immunization schedule is completed.
That is,
22.46%
of the population.
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