Argentina is the fourth country with the highest number of new infections due to the slow pace of the vaccination campaign

Argentina is going through the second wave of COVID-19 and, despite the movement restrictions, the number of positive cases is worrying. Did, in recent days, the country have the highest average of daily infections, after India, Brazil and the United States, according to the specialized site Our World in Data.

If the average of the last seven days is taken, according to the daily reports issued by the Ministry of Health of the Nation, Between May 10 and May 16, the daily number of infected people reported in Argentina was 22,792, with an average of 457 deaths.. In the past week, the country has totaled 159,545 infections; the United States, 232,489; Brazil, 442,453 and India, 2.3 million, according to Our World in Data.

“We are a country without a testing and case tracking policy; which causes contagions to occur in an uncontrolled manner; the vaccination plan is slow; and lack of authority and credibility within the authorities, resulting in non-compliance with restrictive measures“, the shared pediatrician consulted by Infobae Carlos kambourian, former president of Garrahan Hospital, trying to explain why the country continues to have so many infections daily.

The numbers are alarming. Since the first positive case of COVID-19 was detected in Argentina on March 3, 2020, country exceeds 3.3 million infections and 70,500 deaths (10,000 of them, in a month), according to data from the Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center. More, in the country, 2.9 million cases are cured, while more than 284,000 cases are active. The occupancy of adult beds in intensive care units, nationwide, reached 69.3%, or 75.4% in AMBA.

According to this same entity, since the start of the pandemic, the United States, by case, accumulates 32 million infections and 585,900 deaths; India has more than 24.9 million positive and 274,300 deaths; while Brazil has more than 15.6 million infections and 274,000 deaths.

If you take the incidence of positive cases against the number of the population, the situation is no different. Argentina has a rate of nearly 500 infected per million inhabitants. In this sense, the country ranks fifth in the world, behind Seychelles, Maldives, Bahrain and Uruguay.

Consulted this weekend on the infectious situation in Argentina, Rodrigo Quiroga, a researcher in bioinformatics from Conicet and the National University of Córdoba, had indicated: “We have more infections than ever, cases which had started to decrease a little in the AMBA and in the provinces of the central region. , But In recent days we have seen that they seem to be growing everywhere and this situation is very worrying. It is possible that It is a product of the cold, which leads us inside and closes the windows, which increases the risk of contagion.. But it is very worrying. “

Likewise, the doctor of medicine and former head of PAMI, Carlos Javier Regazzoni, also assured this medium this weekend: “Argentina is one of the countries most affected by this disease in the world. We have been 16 months of repeated misdiagnosis that prevented the substantial changes that this context required from being made. All of these diagnostic errors have meant that a strategy of suppressing viral circulation with zero tolerance to the virus has never been tested, through massive testing, traceability and isolation, a strong health frontier, the development of traceability technologies and a sophisticated epidemiological surveillance system.

In Argentina, which began its vaccination campaign on December 29, 2020, only 17.74% of the population received at least one dose of the vaccine, while only 4.3% have already applied both doses. According to the latest part of the Public Vaccination Monitor, prepared by the Nation’s Ministry of Health, some 10,002,830 doses were applied. In this sense, 8,050,709 people have received a dose of the vaccine and only 1,952,121 people are fully vaccinated.

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