08/29/2021 4:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/29/2021 18:02
In the midst of a sustained decline in covid-19 infections, the Government confirmed
2,073 new cases
of coronavirus in Argentina
this Sunday
.
It is the
lowest
daily number infected
in
more than 14 months
.
In addition,
59
other
deaths
were reported
.
To find a lower number of positives than today, you have to go back to the middle of June of last year.
More precisely to Sunday 21, when 1,581 had been reported.
In this way, the country has
5,173,531 infected
and
111,383 deaths
since the beginning of the health crisis due to covid-19.
The data comes from the health report published this afternoon by the Ministry of Health, based on the information provided by the provinces in the last 24 hours.
60% of the Argentine population received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, but only half have the complete scheme.
Photo Maxi Failla
There are currently 199,864 patients with the disease in the country, of which
2,747 are in intensive care
.
The occupation of critical beds for all pathologies is
45.1%
nationwide and slightly higher in the AMBA (
46.1%
).
According to a recent official report, the daily number of infected
has been down for 13 consecutive weeks
and there was a reduction of
more than 85%
compared to the peak in May.
However, 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.
In the seven days prior to today's report, the daily average of new infections was
5,800
.
Since the beginning of March, this indicator remained above 6 thousand.
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The average number of reported deaths per day is
158
- also with data from August 19-25.
It remains well below the record of 603 recorded on June 11.
The cases of the day
This Sunday, as usual, the system testing load was very low:
43,481
.
Like Saturday, the positivity rate (which measures how many of the swabs had the virus) stayed below 5% - it was
4.76%
.
Only the Province of Buenos Aires exceeded the 500 infected detected in the last 24 hours.
This is the national detail:
Buenos Aires 530
CABA 244
Catamarca 103
Chaco 77
Chubut 46
Streams 1
Cordoba 202
Between Rivers 39
Formosa 72
Jujuy 43
La Pampa 26
La Rioja 46
Mendoza 95
Missions 96
Neuquen 47
Rio Negro 36
Jump 40
Saint John 6
Saint Louis 49
Santa Cruz 10
Santa Fe 113
Santiago del Estero 78
Tierra del Fuego 8
Tucuman 66
Vaccines
This weekend,
1,077,000 Sputnik V vaccines (584,500 for component 1 and 492,500 for component 2)
are being distributed to the provinces
, both in their variant packaged in Argentina and those already finished from Russia.
The operation also includes 1,500,000 doses of Sinopharm.
As of this morning, 47,133,224 serums had been distributed to the provinces, of which
5.4 million remain to be applied
.
A total of 27,763,493 people received at least one vaccine.
This represents
60.61%
of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
According to official data, there are more than 5 million vaccines distributed in the provinces to be applied Photo: Orlando Pelichotti
Within this total of vaccinated, 13,937,710 people are included who also received the second dose with which the immunization schedule is completed.
That is,
30.43%
of the population.
The Ministry of Health anticipated that
2.2 million doses of AstraZeneca remain
to be received, which should arrive in the first days of this week.
In addition, the Government confirmed that the first
580,000 doses of Pfizer
will arrive in September
, from a contract for a total of 20 million vaccines.
Health strategy
Between Monday and Tuesday, the Federal Health Council (COFESA) will meet in San Luis with the presence of the Ministers of Health from the 24 jurisdictions.
It will be headed by Carla Vizzotti.
There will be discussed some key points about the management of the pandemic.
Among them,
the opening plan, the monitoring of the indicators set by the DNU and the situation of the Delta variant
.
The schedule for the arrival of new doses and
immunization in adolescents
, which is currently focused on those with risk factors,
is also expected to be addressed
.
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