09/09/2021 18:44
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 09/09/2021 19:15
The health part of this Thursday included a surprising figure: there are
43,779 active cases
of coronavirus in Argentina.
This figure marked a priori a "boom in recoveries" in just 24 hours: on Wednesday there were
189,980 infected
.
The quadruple.
However, it has a technical explanation:
an algorithm change
.
The item "active cases" of covid-19 is the photo of how many patients with a confirmed diagnosis are suffering from the disease.
People who went, swabbed and tested positive.
In this group are those who do home isolation (the vast majority), those hospitalized and those interned in intensive care.
The problem in this registry, according to health sources consulted by
Clarín
, is that many cases
were left open
due to the overload that it implies for health teams in the provinces to load registrations in the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS).
In other words, the system continued to show people who contracted the virus and recovered as infected, but they continued to wear the "active case" corset because the province that uploaded the positive test never notified the discharge.
To fix this, the algorithm was modified.
The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this afternoon that the decision was taken "at the request of the 24 jurisdictions" and attributed it to the fact that "the manual loading of the information on the discharges of COVID patients
generates an overload
in the epidemiological surveillance teams ".
What is the change?
From now on, those cases uploaded to the system that have no notification of death or discharge after 90 days
will be considered recovered
.
"A change was applied in the algorithm for classification of active / non-active cases in the SNVS, so that those cases that are not classified as deceased and in which more than 90 days have elapsed from the date of notification are classified as not active ", was the official explanation of the ministry.
By applying this criterion, the system
"cleaned" this Thursday more than 146 thousand cases
that had been uploaded to the national system by the provinces and then were not updated.
Now the official count, according to the report released this afternoon, shows that
5,218,993 cases of covid-19
have been detected
since March last year, of the
43,779 are still active
and
5,062,115 recovered
.
There were
113,099 deaths
.
In the last 24 hours, 3,661 new infections were confirmed and 138 deaths were reported.
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