Coronavirus: Argentina near 52,000 deaths, adds 8,234 cases

With 145 deaths admitted today in the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS), Argentina reaches 51,795 pandemic deaths, heading towards 52,000 deaths for the Covid-19 coronavirus.

According to the latest data released this afternoon in the Nation’s Ministry of Health’s online coronavirus situation room, the country added 8,234 infections to reach 2,093,645 infected people. Of this number, 1,979,132 have already passed the SARS-CoV-2 virus and only 62,718 they are considered active cases.

The provinces that added cases that day were:

Among the dead admitted to SNVS, two people residing in the province of Buenos Aires did not present data on sex. Of the others, 84 were men who lived:

Meanwhile, the women They were 59 years old and lived in:

In addition, it was reported that yesterday they were 50,336 tests processed and 7,322,351 tests have been carried out since the start of the epidemic diagnostic tests for this disease.

On the other hand, there were 3467 people who had the disease in the intensive care units (ICU). The occupancy of beds in ICUs, beyond the illness which explains the patient’s hospitalization, at the national level is on average 54.1%, while it reaches 60.2% in the AMBA, which represents a slight decrease.

Social, Preventive and Compulsory Distancing (Dispo) due to the coronavirus pandemic, spread throughout the country by the National Government Since February 1, by means of a decree in which face-to-face courses are prioritized in all provinces, it expires next Sunday.

Decree 67/2021 fIt was published on January 30 in the Official Journal and ordered the extension of mitigation measures for the coronavirus pandemic from February 1 to February 28 of the same month.

This provision, in article 24, provides that face-to-face lessons and non-school educational activities face-to-face may be resumed depending on the parameters of assessment, stratification and determination of the level of epidemiological risk.

In this sense, he argued that in any case It was necessary to act according to the protocols duly approved by the competent authorities.

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