The province of Córdoba registered an average of 51 new cases of coronavirus per day. The figure is the highest since the pandemic and evidences a noticeable increase compared to previous weeks and months.
Three weeks ago, the average was seven cases daily (between June 24 and 30). In the following seven days, it went to 18 cases, to then jump to 32 per day (between July 8 and 15). Now, in the last seven days the average exceeds 51 positives per day. But if you look at the last four days, it already climbs to 64 newspapers.
Yesterday
Yesterday, the provincial official report marked 54 new positives, on a growing range of towns and areas.
Of the 54 notified, 16 correspond to the city of Córdoba, 13 to Marcos Juárez, 18 to Oliva, two to Tío Pujio and one each to Villa María, Ana Zumarán, Alta Gracia, Villa San Isidro, Oncativo and Luque.
The data shows the continuity of three outbreaks that do not stop adding cases: those of several neighborhoods simultaneously in the Capital, that of Marcos Juárez (which now accumulates 119 affected in that area, in 15 days from its beginning), and that of Oliva (which in just six days already has more than 110 cases).
Yesterday the largest outbreak recorded by the province, with 165 accumulated, in the south of the Traslasierra Valley did not add contagions. The rate of cases in the last week in that region has decreased compared to the previous ones.
The Oliva outbreak is the most active and continues to impact more towns in the provincial center: yesterday two infections were added in Tío Pujio (that municipality reported that there were seven cases last night), one in Ana Zumarán, one in Villa María and another in Oncativo (which adds up to five in two days). The Ministry of Health noted that the origin of these cases is being investigated, but each of those municipalities linked them to the focus that emerged in Oliva.
In addition, yesterday Alta Gracia and its neighbor Villa San Isidro had new cases, the link of which is not determined for now. And Luque (Río Segundo department) had his first for a trucker who returned from Buenos Aires.
Two deaths
Córdoba recorded two deaths from Covid-19 yesterday. It is a woman from Marcos Juárez, 90 years old, and a man of 37 who was in a street situation in the city of Córdoba, and who died after being hospitalized. A post-death swab confirmed that he had Covid-19.
Córdoba now accumulates 42 deceased, with an average age of 76 years.
It does not go down: another national record of infections and deaths
As the reopening of the quarantine began in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Amba), the number of infections and daily deaths from coronavirus accelerated.
Since the beginning of July this part has doubled the daily number of infected. In any case, the current numbers of detections correspond to infections that occurred 10 or 15 days ago.
Yesterday there was a new record day in Argentina. The number of cases and deaths reached a new peak, with an epicenter in Amba.
According to data from the National Ministry of Health, 5,344 positive cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the country. It’s 25 percent more than Tuesday’s record last week, which marked 4,250 new infections a day.
The death toll was also the highest since the start of the pandemic: 117 deaths were reported yesterday. But the salient is that 30 of them correspond to the province of Jujuy, which for a few weeks has suffered a major outbreak after several months with a low incidence of the virus.
July is already the month with the most deaths recorded since the outbreak of the virus arrived. In total 869 people died. In all of June there had been 751.
The main concentration of infections continues to be in Amba. About 9 out of 10 new cases in the country are located in the province of Buenos Aires or in the City of Buenos Aires (Caba).
Of the total number of cases already detected, 51% are due to community circulation, that is, the epidemiological link could not be identified. 31% are close contacts of confirmed cases and 0.8% are imported.
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The original text of this article was published on 07/22/2020 in our printed edition.
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