08/31/2021 17:02
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/31/2021 5:34 PM
In the last 24 hours,
6,731 new cases
and another
205 deaths
from coronavirus
were confirmed
in Argentina, according to the Government.
In this way, the country exceeds 5.1 million infections and 111 thousand deaths due to the pandemic.
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.
With the new infections reported, the total number of positive cases registered since the beginning of the pandemic is 5,185,620.
Meanwhile, the number of fatalities reached 111,812 deaths.
In the last 24 hours, 99,561 tests were carried out.
The level of positivity was 6.7%, consolidating a number lower than that registered in the most critical moments of the pandemic.
Argentina registers 15 weeks with a decrease in the number of coronavirus infections.
Photo: EFE
On the other hand, the health authorities reported that there are
2,672 patients with coronavirus admitted to intensive care
.
The ICU bed occupancy level for all pathologies is 44.8% nationwide and 46.9% in the AMBA.
These figures come amid a downward curve of new infections.
Health Minister Carla Vizzotti detailed today that "from an epidemiological point of view, there
are 15 consecutive weeks of decrease in the number of cases"
and added that the same trend occurs in hospitalizations in intensive care and deaths.
To compare today's figures, in the seven days prior to this Tuesday, the daily average of new infections was
5,560
.
At the peak of May, it had reached 33,171,
almost sixfold
.
The average number of deaths reported per day is
142
- also with data from August 24-30.
It remains well below the record of 603 recorded on June 11.
Despite this slowdown, Argentina remains the
8th
country with the highest number of positive cases detected since the start of the health crisis, behind the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Turkey.
And the
12th
among those with the most fatalities registered.
The detail by province
With 6,731 confirmed infections and 99,561 tests carried out,
the positivity rate was 6.7%
, below that recommended by the WHO (10%).
As for days, Buenos Aires (1626) and Córdoba (1063) were the only two provinces with more than a thousand reported cases.
The list is completed by:
CABA 327
Catamarca 217
Chaco 112
Chubut 185
Currents 678
Between Rivers 210
Formosa 85
Jujuy 78
La Pampa 66
La Rioja 50
Mendoza 326
Missions 72
Neuquen 91
Black River 107
Jump 177
San Juan 354
St. Louis 58
Santa Cruz 26
Santa Fe 320
Santiago del Estero 83
Tierra del Fuego 25
Tucuman 395
The 205 reported deaths came from Buenos Aires (46);
Catamarca (1);
Chaco (2);
Currents (12);
Cordoba (24);
Entre Ríos (6);
La Pampa (3);
La Rioja (1);
Mendoza (16);
Missions (9);
Neuquén (16);
Rio Negro (4);
Jump (2);
San Juan (3);
Santa Cruz (1);
Santa Fe (26);
Santiago del Estero (1) and Tucumán (32).
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Vaccines
This Tuesday, around
7:00 p.m.
, an Air Canadian flight with
1,654,500 vaccines from AstraZeneca
will arrive in the country
.
It is the first of four flights scheduled for this week.
In addition, the arrival of another three aircraft is expected that will transport
3,248,000 doses of Sinopharm
between tomorrow and Friday
.
Thus the country will exceed the 55 million serums received since December of last year.
The Health Ministry also reported that in the next two weeks
the first 260,000
of the 580,000 Pfizer vaccines planned for September
will arrive
.
According to official data, 60% of the population received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine Photo: Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes
These items will be used to complete heterologous schemes -that combine different brands- and to
start the vaccination of 17-year-old adolescents without risk factors
.
As Minister Vizzotti anticipated, during October they will seek to advance with
all the boys from 12 years old
.
According to the delivery schedule sent by Pfizer,
another 19.5 million doses
are expected to arrive in
the last quarter of the year.
In addition, it is expected that between September 5 and 16,
400,000 single doses of CanSino will arrive
to be applied to the population considered "difficult to access": homeless people, migrants, refugees and other dispersed populations.
Until this morning,
47,900,849 serums
had been distributed to the provinces
, of which
5.5 million remain to be applied
.
As of this morning, almost 48 million vaccines against covid-19 had been distributed to the provinces Photo: Orlando Pelichotti
A total of
27,907,599
people received at least one vaccine.
This represents
60.9%
of the population, out of the 45,808,747 inhabitants estimated by INDEC this year.
Within this total of vaccinated, the
14,448,181
people who also received the second dose with which the immunization scheme is completed are included.
That is,
31.5%
of the population.
"With the application of 7,214,275 second doses, today we exceeded the goal we set in August," said Minister Vizzotti, at the first face-to-face meeting in a province, since February 2020, of the Federal Health Council (COFESA ) that took place in San Luis.
There the official explained that during September the objective will continue to be to
complete the schemes started
.
Currently
almost half
of those vaccinated are waiting to receive the second serum.
Then in October adolescents will be given priority and in November the possibility of applying a third booster dose to specific groups within the population with risk factors will be evaluated, the minister explained.
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