Another 214 people died and 8,159 contracted coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Argentina, while the Government announced today that Phase 3 studies of one of the Chinese vaccines will be carried out in the country, which will be added to the tests that have already begun. the Pfizer laboratory and the agreement with the University of Oxford.
With the official figures announced tonight, the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic amounted to 6,730, while the infected reached 329,043 cases.
The health portfolio added that 1,853 are interned in intensive care units, with a percentage of occupancy of adult beds of 58% in the country and 67.1% in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA).
In this context, the Ministry of Health authorized Phase 3 studies of the Chinese vaccine against coronavirus of the Sinophar group, which is developed by the Elea Phoenix Laboratory, after its approval by the Anmat,
“It is an excellent announcement”, agreed the infectologists consulted by Télam before the news that the Ministry of Health authorized to carry out the studies.
“We are very proud of this achievement in which we have committed all the effort so that we can advance jointly and in solidarity to obtain vaccines available to our people,” said the Minister of Health, Ginés González García.
He also highlighted the efforts of the country and expressed “Argentine pride in having technical capacity, technological development and clinical experience.”
The infectologist Tomás Orduna, a member of the advisory committee of President Alberto Fernández, expressed to Télam his satisfaction with the announcement.
“It is an excellent announcement. Participating in Phase 3 vaccines is very important because it allows us to see the results on efficacy and safety,” he explained.
For his part, the Buenos Aires Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, assured today that in the last ten days “the acceleration we had has been reduced in the AMBA”, but warned that in the interior of the country and the province “they are beginning to rise cases “of coronavirus.
“Epidemics as massive as this one have slower movements than one has information. There are fluctuations that one can see that it goes down some days, that goes up others, but we still have to draw a line. In the last ten days we saw that the acceleration that we had was reduced in the AMBA, “Kreplak said in statements made this morning to National Radio.
The official said that “this does not mean that the cases have decreased, but that the speed of infections has dropped a lot.”
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, said, meanwhile, that in the City “nothing has been completed”, referring to the smoothing of the coronavirus contagion curve in the district, and, after asking citizens to “continue taking care of himself, “he remarked that only” when an effective treatment appears or the vaccine arrives, “there will be” a different scenario. “
“Nothing has been completed here, we are not on vacation, we are at the top of the contagion curve, with a decrease and a tendency to decline, but we have not resolved anything about the epidemic in the City,” Quirós said in a conference of press at the headquarters of the Buenos Aires Executive.
The official pointed out that “we have to remain focused, the Government and citizens, to work on the care and reduction of this pandemic, and only when it has clinically decreased or the vaccine appears will we be in another situation.”
At the international level, the virus today continued its advance in Asia, with the highest increase in daily cases in South Korea in more than five months, while the second wave of infections in Europe hit dozens of schools in the German capital and the pandemic redoubled its bloody passage through America.
Globally, the two countries most affected by the pandemic, the United States and Brazil, continue to lead with 5.6 and 3.5 million infections, respectively, while deaths exceeded 174,700 and 112,300, marking a wide difference with respect to of the rest of the nations.
In the US state of Florida, the one with the most infections after California, the rate of positive cases in daily tests remained below 10% today for the ninth consecutive day, but the new confirmed increased by 4,684 and deaths by 119 , reported the health authorities.
In Brazil, since the beginning of the disease, at least 700 indigenous people have died, a situation that may worsen after the government of Jair Bolsonaro denied Doctors Without Borders access to the reserves of the Terena tribe, in Mato Grosso do Sul. where 5,000 people live.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that the contagion curve in Brazil began to stabilize.
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