Argentina is among the countries with the most new cases of coronavirus

A comprehensive New York Times investigation shows how the coronavirus situation is in the world today, compared to the previous seven days. Argentina is part of the group of countries where cases are high and remain high, with an average of 11,368 daily cases last week, alongside the UK, Israel, the US, Colombia and Italy, among others. This Sunday was located at 15th place.

All other countries mentioned have returned to confinement, in different measures. Here, since Friday, the enforcement of night traffic restrictions fell to the governors.

The analysis shows which are the countries in which the cases more accelerate in recent weeks and the ‘short-term’ comparison focus is crucial as the pandemic is fading in some of the countries that have been heavily affected since the start of its outbreaks, but the number of new cases growing faster than ever in the world, with an average of over 500,000 reported per day.

Argentina was located in this critical image Concerning the rise of infected people, since the American newspaper estimated that each country with more than 5 million inhabitants which reports at least 4 new infections per day per 100,000 inhabitants during the previous seven days, should trigger its alarms.

In recent days, Argentina has reported 26 new infections every 100,000 inhabitants.

According to the daily of the Ministry of Health of the Nation, this Thursday 13,835 new cases of coronavirus were added in Argentina. This number has passed the milestone of the day before, with 13,790 new cases and the highest number in more than two months. Then, 13,346 infected people were reported on Friday and 11,057 on Saturday.

It is growth weekly contagions place our country on the same comparative scale as the United Kingdom, with the difference that in this country, according to these data from the NYT, the average of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants is 90. In Israel, 81; United States, 77; Colombia, 30 years old (country which has already limited night traffic); and Italy, 28.

What about our neighbors? Chile, Bolivia and Brazil are in the same situation as Argentina: they have suffered high and rising cases. The borders are still closed and the executive plans to further restrict international flights.

In total, Argentina has registered 1,714,409 infections so far as of Sunday and 44417 deaths by coronavirus. But our country does not appear in the “red box” where more people die from the virus every 14 days.

While our death toll is high, the key lies in the previous two weeks that were taken as a parameter for the analysis. As they explain, “the time lag between when people are infected, when they die and when these deaths are reported is typical. Some of the deaths reported in the past two weeks may have occurred much earlier ”. In the case of Argentina, delays in registering deaths have occurred more than once.

According to the figures provided by the official reports of the Nation and of the Ministry of Health of the City, we can today affirm that the cases of coronavirus they have not stopped growing in the AMBA since the long weekend of December 8th. Thus, the city of Buenos Aires had 276 cases per day (average of the previous week). Now, 795, almost a triplication which assumes a doubling time of 16 days. Same as May-June. In the province of Buenos Aires, on December 7, there were 1,248 new daily cases and on December 31, 2,921, a doubling of 20 days, as in June.

The decline in terms of “exit” from the pandemic is marked by local figures. he growth contagions is shown by the international map, which today places Argentina as a country that faced a low epidemic at the start, with a quarantine of 9 months, and is now starting to show figures that are already raising the curve. almost “forgotten” contagion.

“What we see in laboratory studies is that at high temperatures, close to 30 degrees, the virus loses its viability. We have even seen that in Europe the cases have decreased in summer. And we were fine Until December 7 registration», Explains Eduardo López, infectologist at the Ricardo Gutiérrez hospital.

He says from now on it started to show the impact of major events, like those which took place for and against abortion, the massive wake of Diego Armando Maradona, the celebrations of certain football clubs, the underground parties, the end of year meetings and trips to tourist destinations for vacation also complicated the picture.

“All of this led us to be bad again despite the heat. And we are not the only ones: Brazil, Colombia and South Africa, other places with high temperatures, are also in the ranking of the highest number of daily cases ”, explains López and adds, among the forgetfulness, that people started going out without masks or using public transport without the essential work permit. “In these cases, there was also a lack of control,” he adds.

Faced with this situation, he assures us that the WHO considers that health curfews are useful. “Measures that involve containment can help stop the increase in cases, but people must accompany and local governments must monitor compliance, ”adds the infectologist.

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