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The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported this Friday that during the last 24 hours 160 deaths and 7,482 new positive cases from coronavirus were registered. With these data, the total number of infected throughout the country amounts to 235,677 and fatalities total 4,411.
Of the total of those cases, 1,130 (0.5%) are imported, 63,695 (27%) are close contacts of confirmed cases, 133,585 (56.7%) are cases of community circulation and the rest are under epidemiological investigation.
In the morning report 40 new deaths were registered.24 men, 18 from the province of Buenos Aires, one from the city of Buenos Aires, one from Chaco, one from La Rioja, one from the province of Santa Fe, two from Salta; and 16 women, 11 from the province of Buenos Aires, two from the city of Buenos Aires, two from Chaco and one from Santa Fe.
In the evening report, 120 more deaths were reported.80 men, 56 residents in the province of Buenos Aires, 12 in the city of Buenos Aires, one resident from Chaco, five from Córdoba, one from Entre Ríos, two from Mendoza, one from Neuquén, two from Salta; and 40 women, 22 from the province of Buenos Aires, 11 from the city of Buenos Aires, two from Chaco, four from Córdoba and one from Río Negro.
Of the 7,482 cases, 5,200 are from the province of Buenos Aires, 1,237 from the city of Buenos Aires, 162 from Córdoba, 134 from Santa Fe, 124 from Mendoza, 105 from Río Negro, 85 from Tierra del Fuego, 77 from Chaco, 70 from Jujuy, 64 from Santa Cruz, 57 from Entre Ríos, 54 from Salta, 42 from Neuquén, 29 from La Rioja, 29 from Santiago del Estero, 9 from Tucumán, 7 from La Pampa, 4 from Corrientes, 2 from Chubut and 1 from San Luis. Misiones reclassified her case to another jurisdiction, according to place of residence.
Yesterday 18,020 new samples were taken and since the beginning of the outbreak 812,564 diagnostic tests for this disease were carried out, which is equivalent to 17,755 samples per million inhabitants. To date, the total number of registrations is 103,297 people.
The number of cases discarded until yesterday is 459,686 (by laboratory and by clinical / epidemiological criteria).
“When the circulation of people increases, the circulation of the virus increases and it is inevitable that cases will increase because it is a new virus that is transmitted very easily,” he said. Carla Vizzotti, Secretary of Access to Health of the Nation, in dialogue with National Radio.
And he continued: “On January 7, 100 percent of the population was susceptible. And today, with the numbers we have, even contemplating that many have not been detected, there is still a large percentage of the population that is still susceptible”.
Regarding the new criterion that allows the diagnosis of a cohabitant of a confirmed case with symptoms without the need to perform a swab, the official said that “It is a common practice in epidemiological surveillance.”
“Right now, more than 95% of the viruses that are isolated are SARS-Cov-2. This makes it possible to speed up the times to diagnose and isolate, and to make the use of swabs more efficient ”, he explained.
Vizzotti also said that “a working group was organized with the Ethics and Human Rights Committee of the Ministry to think in terms of the impact that the coronavirus has had in Argentina the prioritization and stages of vaccination before the possibility of entering a vaccine ”.
Regarding the saturation of the health system, he concluded that “the place of greatest tension was seen in the city of Buenos Aires, especially in the private sector, but it has already stabilized. Now it is being seen in the first cordon of the province of Buenos Aires ”.
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