08/24/2021 4:59 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/24/2021 5:15 PM
This Tuesday the Government notified
8,119
new cases
of coronavirus in Argentina, so there are already more than 5.1 million infections detected since the start of the pandemic.
In addition, another
198 deaths
were reported
, and the total exceeds 110 thousand.
The data were published by the Ministry of Health this afternoon, based on data provided by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
According to the data of the public monitor, 105,984 were carried out, which gives a
positivity of 7.66%
, below the numbers registered at another time of the pandemic.
The Ministry also reported that there are
3,173 patients with coronavirus admitted to intensive care,
while the occupancy level of ICU beds for all pathologies is 47.3% nationwide and 49.6% in the AMBA.
In the country, 21.4 million tests have been carried out to detect cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
Photo: Emmanuel Fernández
The district that reported the most cases was the province of Buenos Aires, with 2,026 positives, followed by Córdoba, with 1,367;
and San Juan, with 979. CABA reported 416 infections.
Regarding deaths, Buenos Aires also registered the highest number of victims, with 43. The other two districts with the most cases were Córdoba and Entre Ríos, with 27 deaths.
CABA reported 13 deaths.
Delta variant
Hours before the dissemination of the sanitary part, the first community contagion with the Delta variant was reported in the Province of Buenos Aires.
He is a person who lives in Lanús and works in the City of Buenos Aires, who had no contact with people who have returned infected from abroad.
Between Sunday and Monday, the
first two deaths
in the country
were confirmed
by this mutation detected for the first time in India.
It is about the "zero patient" from Córdoba - a 62-year-old man - and a 38-year-old woman who was infected as a close contact.
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.
To put the figures of today's report into context, the daily average of new infections was
7,385
taking data from the previous 7 days.
This represents a
43%
drop
in the last month.
At the peak of the second wave - recorded in May - it had reached 33,171, more than four times.
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The average number of deaths reported per day
rose to 214
- also with data from August 18 to 24 -,
31%
more than a week ago.
It remains well below the record of 603 recorded on June 11.
In this context, the Government announced today that a "pilot test" will be carried out on September 9 for the return of the public at mass events.
It will be in the match that the Argentine soccer team will play against its Bolivian counterpart, at the Monumental, as part of the Qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
Vaccines
This Tuesday the final signing of the contract by Pfizer was confirmed and the Government announced that
the first 580,000 doses will arrive in September
.
Then weekly shipments are expected to complete 20 million vaccines this year.
In the morning, 650,000 Sputnik V vaccines arrived in the country, of which
250,000 are component 2
, the most anticipated to complete the immunization schedules already started.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, explained when returning from Russia that "in the next few days, for the weekend" they will be receiving another 300 thousand second doses, which are packaged by the Richmond laboratory.
The same amount will be released "at the beginning of the other week."
Health Minister Carla Vizzotti anticipated that in the next few days 600,000 doses of the second component of Sputnik V will be released in Argentina.
Photo: Ministry of Health
He also pointed out that
2.2 million doses of AstraZeneca have yet to be received,
which "will arrive between the end of this week and the beginning of next week" and that the shipment from China of the Sinopharm vaccine of two remnants of 768 thousand and 680 thousand doses each remains. a.
Finally, he reiterated that an agreement was signed with Moderna for 20 million vaccines to receive from 2022 and that they are waiting "if there is another donation from the United States," after having received one from Spain last week.
Stock
Since the beginning of the campaign, Argentina received
48,210,120 vaccines
, of which 16,304,000 are from Sinopharm;
13,118,795 Sputnik V (9,775,635 of component 1 and 3,343,160 of component 2);
11,415,700 from AstraZeneca and Oxford whose active ingredient was produced in Argentina;
3,500,000 from Moderna;
1,944,000 from AstraZeneca through the WHO COVAX mechanism;
580,000 to AstraZeneca-Covishield and 200,000 to Cansino.
Added to this are the 1,147,625 doses of Sputnik V packaged in the country by the Richmond laboratory: 995,125 for component 1 and 152,500 for component 2.
As of this morning, 44,491,834 doses had been distributed to the provinces, of which
4.8 million remain to be applied
.
According to official data, almost 60% of the population received the first dose of the vaccine.
Photo Maxi Failla
A total of 27,330,979 people received at least one vaccine.
This represents
59.66%
of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
Within the total of vaccinated, 12,274,825 people are included who also received the second dose with which the immunization schedule is completed.
That is,
26.8%
of the population.
DD / LM
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