Coronavirus in Argentina: 28 deaths and 753 contaminations have been confirmed in the last 24 hours

The Nation’s Ministry of Health has indicated that, In the past 24 hours, 28 deaths and 753 new coronavirus infections have been recorded. Thus, the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic has increased to 5,265,058 and the dead are 115,444.

On the other hand, from yesterday to today, 33,285 tests were performed, with a positivity of 2.26%. Since the start of the epidemic, 24,190,048 diagnostic tests for this disease have been carried out. To date, 19,530 active positive cases have been registered nationwide and 5,130,084 recovered.

Of the total number of deaths reported today, 20 are male (8 are from the province of Buenos Aires, 1 from Corrientes, 4 from Cordoba, 5 from La Rioja, 1 from Mendoza and 1 from Salta) and 8 are women (2 are from the province of Buenos Aires, 1 from Cordoba, 1 from Jujuy, 2 from La Rioja, 1 from San Juan and 1 from San Luis).

According to the epidemiological part, there are currently 981 people with coronavirus hospitalized in intensive care in Argentina. The percentage of bed occupancy at the national level is 35.9% and in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA) it is 41.6%.

Of the 753 new infections, 247 come from the province of Buenos Aires, 106 from the city of Buenos Aires, 24 from Catamarca, 1 from Chaco, 6 from Chubut, 25 from Corrientes, 70 from Córdoba, 13 d’Entre Ríos, 5 de Formosa, 8 de Jujuy, 3 de La Pampa, 11 de La Rioja, 95 de Mendoza, 9 de Misiones, 12 de Neuquén, 21 de Río Negro, 19 de Salta, 4 de San Juan, 2 de San Luis, 2 de Santa Cruz, 26 from Santa Fe, 9 from Santiago del Estero and 35 from Tucumán. No case has been reported in Tierra del Fuego.

However, the vaccination campaign is continuing. According to the Public Vaccination Observatory, to date, 58,753,279 doses have been distributed and 53,722,730 have been applied. The data indicate that There are 30,120,442 people vaccinated with a single dose, of whom 23,602,288 have already completed the program.

Yesterday, a new expedition of 776,880 doses of vaccine from the Pfizer laboratory. American Airlines flight AA931 landed in the morning at Ezeiza international airport, where it was received by the Undersecretary of Medicine and Strategic Information of the Nation’s Ministry of Health, Gaston Moran.

The game is added to the 848,250 units that arrived Wednesday afternoon, thus completing the total of 1,625,130 doses from the North American firm announced for this week.

Health officials have indicated that vaccines from this laboratory will continue to arrive over the next three months until the completion of the 20 million units planned by contract by 2021. This, they stressed, “will cover vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in adolescents 12 to 17 years old universally ”.

In addition, the country has received in recent days two new deliveries of Sputnik V part 2 of the Richmond laboratory: a lot with 625,000 doses Wednesday and another with 1,005,500 Monday, when a shipment also arrived with 1,144,000 Sinopharm units. Thus, in just four days, 4,399,630 vaccines arrived in Argentina.

Since the start of the campaign, the country has received 75,261,055 doses. Of this total, 2,206,620 correspond to Pfizer; 30,000,000 at Sinopharm, 14,183,210 belong to Sputnik V (10,125,655 of component 1 and 4,057,555 of component 2), and 4,759,625 to Sputnik V produced in Argentina by the Richmond Laboratory (1,179,625 of the first component and 3,580,000 of the second).

20,011,600 doses correspond to the firm AstraZeneca (580,000 Covishield; 1,944,000 received by the COVAX mechanism, 15,695,600 from AstraZeneca and Oxford, the active ingredient of which was produced in Argentina; 1,242,400 given by the Spain and 549,600 by Canada). Meanwhile, 3,500,000 correspond to doses of Moderna given by the United States and 600,000 to CanSino.

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