The Secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti announced changes in the modality of confirming coronavirus cases. In this Thursday’s report, he explained that “a person living with a patient who has respiratory symptoms will be considered a positive case.” Also, 29 new deaths from covid-19 were reported in the country, which raised 4,135 death toll.
Thus, the Ministry of Health reported that case confirmation, starting this Thursday, will include cohabitants and close contacts of those patients diagnosed by PCR test residing in areas with community transmission and presenting any characteristic symptom of Covid-19.
The undersecretary of Health Strategies, Alejandro Costa, explained that the laboratory test must continue to be performed on patients who meet the hospitalization criteria, health workers, pregnant women, people with risk factors, closed institution workers already deceased without confirmed cause of death.
In this regard, Carla Vizzotti added that this “expansion” of the modality to define a positive case of coronavirus was agreed upon by the federal council, and He assured that it will allow “optimizing resources”.
The official also anticipated that it is expected that there will be an increase in confirmations of positive diagnoses in the coming days due to the change in modality and maintained that each jurisdiction may decide “where and when it is implemented.”
Meanwhile, the official report also indicated that There were 7,147 Covid-19 positives that were reported this Wednesday in Argentina and 220,682 total infected so far, with an incidence of 486 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
A total of 1,219 people study the disease in intensive care units throughout the country, of which 82.4% in health centers in the City and in the province of Buenos Aires.
The occupation of beds of intensive care, beyond the ailment that explains the hospitalization of the patient, nationwide, it averages 56.3%, while in the AMBA it reaches 66.1%.
Since the last report, 21 men and 10 women died, 21 with residence in the province of Buenos Aires; 4 in the City of Buenos Aires, 3 in Tierra del Fuego, 1 in Neuquén, 1 in Tucumán and 1 in Chaco, but the Ministry of Health clarified that 2 people who yesterday were included in the report as deceased, were reclassified as “no deceased “, which explains the difference between the number of deaths.
So, the mortality rate is 90 people per million inhabitants and the case fatality rate is 1.9% of the confirmed cases.
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