Coronavirus in Argentina: 3,017 new cases and 176 other deaths are reported

09/14/2021 4:58 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 9/14/2021 5:22 PM

Hours after the third fatal case of the Delta variant in Argentina was confirmed, the Government updated the figures for the pandemic.

In the last 24 hours,

3,017 new infections

and another

176 deaths

from coronavirus

were confirmed

.

In this way, since the beginning of the health crisis, the country has exceeded 5.2 million infections detected and

113 thousand deaths

.

The data comes from the health report published this afternoon by the Ministry of Health, based on information provided by the provinces.

As reported by the ministry about adults in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), there are 1,851 hospitalized for Covid, with a bed occupancy percentage of 41% in the Nation and 42.6% in the AMBA.

The detail by province

The list of new infections did not have any province that exceeds a thousand cases, with Buenos Aires (913) as the one that reported the most infections.

They followed her:

• CABA 218

• Catamarca 121

• Chaco 46

• Chubut 50

• Currents 113

• Cordoba 367

• Between Rivers 162

• Formosa 52

• Jujuy 39

• La Pampa 53

• La Rioja 16

• Mendoza 97

• Missions 21

• Neuquen 43

• Rio Negro 69

• Jump 41

• Saint John 32

• Saint Louis 12

• Santa Cruz 20

• Santa Fe 192

• Santiago del Estero 39

• Tierra del Fuego 13

• Tucuman 288

As for the 176 deaths reported by the health portfolio, they were reported from: Buenos Aires (70);

CABA (4);

Chaco (4);

Chubut (5);

Cordoba (8);

Entre Ríos (9);

Jujuy (3);

La Pampa (4);

La Rioja (1);

Mendoza (11);

Missions (3);

Neuquen (4);

Rio Negro (5);

Jump (2);

San Juan (2);

Santa Fe (14);

Santiago del Estero (3);

Tierra del Fuego (1) and Tucumán (23).

In Argentina, 5.2 million coronavirus infections were detected, since the beginning of the pandemic.

Photo Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes

The country has been going through the

lowest point of the contagion curve

since the first wave, registered in the middle of last year.

According to data from the 7 days prior to today's part - from September 7 to 13 - the average fell to

2,690 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 throughout the pandemic.

Meanwhile, it ranks

13th

among those with the most

fatalities

registered, according to the

Worldometer

site

.

The daily average of deaths is

138

-also with the data of the last week-.

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

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Source:

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Infographic:

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Third death by Delta

This Tuesday, a Brazilian trucker who had been

infected with the Delta variant

died in Mendoza

.

He was hospitalized for three weeks at the Perrupato hospital, in the town of San Martín.

It is the

third fatal case in Argentina

.

The 42-year-old man had been hospitalized since August 28 for covid-19.

Shortly after arriving in the province, he presented symptoms and was swabbed in a hospital in Greater Mendoza, after which he was isolated and admitted to intensive care at the Perrupato hospital.

According to the newspaper Los Andes, he was vaccinated with

a single dose of Pfizer

.

In mid-August, the first two deaths in the country had been confirmed by Delta: they are patient zero from Córdoba - a man who had returned from Peru and had not completed the isolation - and a woman who had been infected by close contact.

Vaccines

Between today and tomorrow, the distribution of 1,417,165 vaccines against covid-19 to the provinces will be completed.

This batch includes the first 100,000 doses of Pfizer, 399,680 single-dose schedules of CanSino, 760,625 components 2 of Sputnik V and 156,240 of Moderna.

Over the weekend Argentina exceeded 60 million serums received.

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

4.6 million remain to be applied

.

According to official data, 86% of those over 18 years of age received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

Photo: Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes

The

62.83%

of the population has the least vaccine covid-19 (28,779,514 are dose).

According to official sources, this represents 

86.8% of those over 18 years of age

.

This group includes 18,524,049 people who completed their scheme (

40.44%

of the total and 56.4% of those over 18).

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