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Argentina added this Friday 13,549 new cases of coronavirus, according to information provided by the Ministry of Health of the Nation. In this way he exceeded 5 million cases since the start of the pandemic, a figure that was believed to be absolutely distant on March 3, 2020 when a 43-year-old man, recently arrived from Europe, became the country’s first positive.
And much further from January 23 of that same year, when the then Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García insured: “There is no possibility of a coronavirus in Argentina.”
A year, 5 months and 3 days have passed since the “arrival” of the coronavirus in Argentina. A virus that national authorities they underestimated before your arrival and to whom they did not know how to control once it started to spread across the country. And the data reflects this claim.
Argentina is today the eighth country in the world with the most cases of coronavirus. Only 7 countries have added more infections since the start of the pandemic.
United States (35,330,664 cases), India (31.856.757), Brazil (20.066.587), Russia (6.318.643), France (6.324.215), UK (6 042 350) and Turkey (5 870 741) are those which overtake Argentina, which comes immediately after, with exactly 5.002.951 Confirmed cases.
In the region it is only below Brazil, another with terrible management of the pandemic and with an even greater degree of underestimation than Argentina.
Anyway, and despite the number, the worst moment seems to have been forgotten taking into account, mainly, two data: the percentage of current positivity (11.05%) and the occupancy of intensive care beds (3,657 patients). Both are well below the numbers reached in September and October 2020.
Moreover, despite the shortcomings, mismanagement and irregularities, the vaccination plan which takes place throughout the national territory collaborates in the control of these indicators.
So the concern, at least at the moment, goes through the Delta variant, that although it has “arrived” in the country, it has not been confirmed that there is community circulation.
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