Coronavirus in Argentina: 155 deaths and 7,477 new infections have been added

When there are only 8 days left to complete a year since the arrival of the Covid-19 coronavirus in the country, the government reported that there were 7,477 new infections, with which there are already 2,077,228 infected in the country. From this number, 1877898 have already conquered the disease and they are considered as cases active 147,820 people.

In addition, health centers across the country have entered the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS) 155 deaths and the total number of deaths from the pandemic has increased to 51,510.

According to information updated this afternoon in the Nation’s Department of Health’s online coronavirus situation room, the cases each province added were:

Among the dead admitted to SNVS, one resident in the city of Buenos Aires, one in Córdoba and one in Salta, had not assigned data on gender. During this time, 91 were men who have lived in:

Le 63, lived in:

In addition, it has been reported that yesterday 50 888 tests were processed and since the beginning of outbreak 7,225,225 were carried out diagnostic tests for this disease.

On the other hand, 3,529 people suffered from the disease in intensive care units (ICU). The occupancy of ICU beds, beyond the illness which explains the patient’s hospitalization, at the national level is on average 54.3%, while it reaches 60.2% in the AMBA, which represents a slight decrease.

At the same time, Carla Vizzotti, Minister of Health of the Nation, announced that she would launch the teaching staff vaccination campaign with the doses developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm. Vizzotti made the announcement within the framework of the meeting of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa), Shortly after take off an Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Beijing to bring 904,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the country.

The minister led this afternoon at the Casa Rosada the first meeting of the Federal Health Council, in which the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero participated, and all ministers from the region of the country.

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR1050 to Beijing to bring 904,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the country departed today at 1:00 p.m. and is expected to return to Buenos Aires on Thursday at 9:50 p.m.

On the other hand, in the coming days, via a regular flight, 96,000 additional doses will arrive, completing the million purchased by the national government, they said in a statement.

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