Argentina broke its record for Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday May 5 since the start of the pandemic, with 633 deaths recorded in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced.
The previous record was 561 daily deaths on April 29.
Some 24,079 new cases have been identified in the past 24 hours, for a total of more than three million in this country of 45 million inhabitants.
With 65,865 deaths in total, or a death rate of 1,422 per million inhabitants, Argentina is the sixth most bereaved country in Latin America in proportion to its population (30th globally).
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Since mid-April, the government has stepped up measures to reduce the movement of people in an attempt to curb the spread of the disease, which appears to be plateauing with an average of around 25,000 new cases daily. According to the Ministry of Health, the percentage of beds occupied in intensive care units is 68.2% nationally, a rate that reaches 75.9% in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, where 15 million people live. people.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Wednesday that hospitals are
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She warned of increasing hospitalizations and deaths of young adults. Some 7.36 million people have received a first dose of vaccines administered in Argentina, while 1.16 million have already received two doses.