The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Friday that in the last 24 hours they reported 165 deaths by coronavirus and that were identified 6,365 infections.
“Since the last report issued, they registered 99 new deaths“, they indicated. Those deaths are added to the 66 that were reported in the morning report.
Thus, since last March 3 when the first case was identified, the total number of deaths increased to 5,527 and that of those infected to 282,437.
Of the recently confirmed infections, 4,157 belong to the province of Buenos Aires, 1,012 to the Federal Capital, 49 to Chaco, 6 to Chubut, 144 to Córdoba, 1 to Corrientes, 100 to Entre Ríos, 133 to Jujuy, 1 to La Pampa, 22 to La Rioja, 165 to Mendoza, 1 to Misiones, 16 to Neuquén, 118 to Río Negro, 106 to Salta, 1 to San Luis, 40 to Santa Cruz, 190 to Santa Fe, 24 to Santiago del Estero, 48 to Tierra del Fuego and 32 to Tucumán.
Meanwhile, in the evening report it was detailed that 56 deaths occurred in Buenos Aires (31 men and 25 women), 28 in the Federal Capital (17 men and 11 women).
It was also detailed that 2 men died in Entre Ríos, another 2 in Mendoza, 3 men in Río Negro, 1 in Salta, 2 in Tierra del Fuego, and 3 women in Río Negro, another in Santa Fe and another in Tierra del Fuego.
It was noted that the percentage of occupancy of Intensive Care Units became 58.9 percent nationwide and 68.6% in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.
There are no provinces that have not reported positives in the last 14 days and the areas of community transmission of the virus -which is already registered in various areas of 13 jurisdictions- was added the town of Casilda, in the province of Santa Fe.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,682 people have the disease in intensive care units throughout the country, 80.4% of them in establishments in the City and Province of Buenos Aires.
The occupation of intensive care beds, beyond the illness that explains the hospitalization of the patient, at the national level averages 58.3%, while in the AMBA it reaches 68.4%.
The Argentine laboratory that will produce vaccines against the coronavirus. (Photo: AFP).
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Arnaldo Dubin, a member of the Sociedad Argentina de Terapia Intensiva (SATI), warned that “the limitation of the functioning of the (health) system is not a physical resource” such as a respirator or a bed “but the human resource” and said that that “sad” reality can already be observed in jurisdictions like Jujuy.
Dubin said that “If there is a risk of collapse, it is not due to lack of respirators, of beds, it is due to lack of personnel” and explained that critical care areas historically suffer from the lack of professionals willing to face this function.
Of the total number of confirmed cases in Argentina since the start of the pandemic, 1,148 (0.4%) are imported, 72,902 (25.8%) are close contacts of confirmed cases, 168,252 (59.6%) are cases of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.
President Fernández announced that they will continue in preventive and compulsory social isolation, in addition to the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), four departments of Jujuy; Río Gallegos, in Santa Cruz; and Rio Grande, in Tierra del Fuego; while they join Phase 1 of Tartagal restrictions, in Salta; La Rioja capital and Chamical; and Santiago del Estero capital and La Banda.
