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Coronavirus in Argentina: 2,297 new cases and another 239 deaths confirmed in the last 24 hours

2021-09-13T20:52:03.609Z


It was reported by the Ministry of Health in the part of this Monday. The delivery of the first doses of Pfizer vaccines began.


09/13/2021 17:01

  • Clarín.com

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Updated 9/13/2021 5:29 PM

After a weekend with the lowest infection figures in 15 months, the Government confirmed this Monday

2,297 new cases

and another

239 deaths

from coronavirus in Argentina.

In this way, the country exceeds 5.2 million infected and 113 thousand deaths since the start of the pandemic.

The data were published by the Ministry of Health this afternoon, in the health report prepared based on the information provided by the provinces.

With the infections registered this Monday, the

total number of infected

since the beginning of the pandemic reaches

5,226,831

, of which 34,600 are active patients.

The new update of deaths raises to

113,640

the number of

dead covid.

According to the latest daily report, there are

1,829 serious patients

with coronavirus admitted to intensive care units.

The occupancy rate of these units, for all pathologies, is 41.3% nationwide and 42.8% in the AMBA.

For the fifth consecutive day, no information was released on the number of tests carried out.

Official sources attribute it to a system problem that still could not be solved.


The detail, province by province


The Province of Buenos Aires was the

district with the most cases of coronavirus

in this Monday's report: 675 on the day and 2,048,764 since the start of the pandemic.

Tucumán and Córdoba were the other two jurisdictions that exceeded 200 infections (265 - 200,632 and 250 - 513,648, respectively).

The

City of Buenos Aires (199 - 510,283), Entre Ríos (101 - 135,548) and Río Negro (100 - 99,494)

also registered

more than 100 infected

.

The other provinces with

more than 50 cases

were Mendoza (87 - 164,011), Santa Fe (82 - 467,818), Catamarca (73 - 50,171), Chaco (65 - 99,773), Corrientes (58 - 90,764) and Chubut (57 - 82,191 ).

The list with the data of infected in the rest of the country continues with: Santiago del Estero (42 - 80,629), Neuquén (33 - 112,821), Salta (33 - 83,292), La Pampa (29 - 67,223), Formosa (27 - 61,572), Jujuy (24 - 47,579), San Juan (23 - 69,657), La Rioja (22 - 33,020), San Luis (17 - 80,222), Misiones (14 - 36,088), Santa Cruz (13 - 59,335) and Tierra of Fire (8 - 32,296).

The

Province of Buenos Aires

was also the district

with the most deaths

registered at the beginning of this week: 80. It was followed by Salta (22), Neuquén (19), Santa Fe (15), Entre Ríos (12), Ciudad de Buenos Aires (11), Chubut (11), Tucumán (11) and Córdoba (10).

La Pampa (8), La Rioja (8), Corrientes (6), Mendoza (5), Chaco (4), Formosa (4), Río Negro (4), Santiago del Estero (3), Jujuy (2), San Juan (2), San Luis (1) and Santa Cruz (1).

On Sunday, 930 positive cases had been reported throughout the country, the lowest figure for a day since June 2020. This number - reported in the middle of election day - could not be compared with the number of tests since due to a problem system was not informed.

The vaccination plan continues and this Monday began the distribution of 1.4 million vaccines against Covid.

Photo: Reuters

The country has been going through

the lowest point of the contagion curve

since the first wave.

According to data from the 7 days prior to today's part -from September 6 to yesterday-, the average

fell to 2,918 infected per day

.

This represents a monthly drop of

73%

;

and

91%

compared to the peak in May, when it reached 33,171.

Despite this slowdown, Argentina ranks

9th

among the countries with the highest number of positive cases detected since the start of the health crisis.

Meanwhile, it ranks

13th

among those with the most fatalities, according to the Worldomoters site.

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Infographic:

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The daily average of deaths is

127

-also with the data reported from September 6 to 12-.

It remains well below the record of 603 recorded on June 11.

Vaccines


This Monday began the distribution of

1,417,165 vaccines

against covid-19 to the provinces, among which are

the first doses of Pfizer

that arrived in the country last week.

This Monday began the distribution of the 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines that arrived in the country last week.

Photo: AFP

The Ministry of Health reported that the distribution will take place between today and Wednesday.

The shipment includes

100,620 sera

produced by the US laboratory, the first batch of the contract for 20 million.

"They will be aimed at adolescents,"

the government said in a statement.

This new operation also includes

399,680 single dose schedules of CanSino

, which will be destined for "populations with difficult access" such as

homeless people, migrants, refugees and other groups

.

"Meanwhile, 760,625 inoculations of Sputnik V component 2 will be distributed jointly, which will make it possible to complete the vaccination scheme, and 156,240 of Moderna to advance with the vaccination of 17-year-old adolescents," detailed the Ministry of Health.

In the early hours of Sunday, an Aerolineas Argentinas flight brought 1,116,010 sera from the second component of Sputnik V, with which

the 60 million doses

received since the end of December

have been exceeded

.


The applications

The

62.69%

of the population has the least vaccine covid-19 (28,721,805 are dose).

According to official sources, this represents more than 85% of those over 18 years of age.

According to official data, 62.69% of the population received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

Photo: EFE

So far, 18,273,929 people have completed the scheme (

39.89%

of the total and more than 50% of those over 18).

According to the data released to the Public Vaccination Monitor, up to this morning 51,999,944 doses had been distributed to the provinces, of which

5 million remain to be applied

.

DD / DS

Look also

Sputnik V: for the WHO, the approval of the vaccine is suspended and it is not known until when

The Lancet: A third dose against Covid is not yet necessary, despite the threat of the Delta variant

Source: clarin

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