Uruguay Leads Per Capita Vaccination Rankings Against COVID-19 In April

In the first days of April, Uruguay became the country that administered the most COVID-19 vaccines per capita in the world. The statistics come from the specialized site Our world in data, indicating that the South American country has achieved an inoculation rate greater than 1 percent in the first four days of the month. In the last two days – April 3 and 4 – it was the only one in the world to be above that number.

According to the Uruguayan government immunization monitor, Monday at 5 p.m. (local time) 813,195 vaccines were administered nationwide (723,977 first doses and 89,218 seconds).

All departments inoculated at least 10 percent of their population, being Canelones the one with the lowest number (10.4 percent with the first dose and 2.81 percent with the second) and Rivera, bordering Brazil, with a dramatic health situation, the highest: 36.13 percent of its population received the first dose and 3.21 percent the second. Montevideo, by far the most populous district in the country, inoculated 21.48 percent of its population with the first dose and 2.72 percent with the second.

Luis Lacalle Pou’s administration searched last week – known in the country as Tourism Week – accelerate the vaccination rate in the country by opening shifts to the entire adult population. It also announced last week that it will space out the administration of the second dose of the immunizer developed by Pfizer to people over 80, healthcare workers and the elderly living in residences. have enough vaccines to inoculate the population aged 71 to 79. The remainder of the population not listed above received doses of the Coronavac vaccine.

Indeed, alongside the rapid vaccination campaign, positive cases and deaths from the disease are also increasing at a considerable rate. In fact, the country has also become in recent days the one with the most cases per million population, with 836.94 on April 4.. Experts, however, pointed out that this figure is a consequence of high levels of testing, unlike the situation in other countries with higher positivity rates, where the true number of infections is generally underreported.

On that day, the government reported a new record of positive COVID-19 adding 3,855 new cases and reaching 117,757 confirmed since the start of the pandemic. In addition, on Sunday there were 30 deaths from cases linked to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between the ages of 30 and 95. There are already 1,101 people who have lost their lives to this disease in the country.

The last case registration dates back to April 2, when 3,380 new positive cases were detected. If the Sinae report initially indicated that 14,086 analyzes were carried out this Sunday and 2,237 new cases were detected, to this are added 1,618 which were reported expired by the laboratories. Previous peaks had also had a sum of positive precedents.

Of the 2,237 cases, the most affected department was again Montevideo with 1,054 cases, followed by Canelones with 313 and Rivera with 164.

The daily report of the Uruguayan Society of Intensive Medicine highlighted this Saturday that there are currently 615 occupied beds out of 872 operating beds, which represents 70.5%. Of this total, 44% correspond to patients with COVID-19. Going over 35% of beds with COVID-19 patients means stepping into a red zone of the healthcare system, according to the group of advisers.

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