Uruguay recorded second consecutive day without COVID-19 deaths so far this year

Uruguay recorded the second consecutive day without deaths from covid-19 this Sunday after a period of almost eight months with daily deaths, according to the daily report of the country’s National Emergency System (Sinae).

The country, which currently has 5,986 deaths from this disease, recorded zero deaths on December 21, 2020 and from there began a period of daily deaths that only ended on Saturday.

At the end of December, the numbers started to rise and months later the country started with an exponential increase that resulted in figures of more than 70 deaths per day in April and thousands of new cases per day.

This Sunday the country recorded 156 new cases in 10,109 covid-19 tests and, with this information, the South American country adds 382,506 cases of covid-19 since the start of the health emergency, which was declared in Uruguay on March 13, 2020, including 1,636 people with the disease, 31 of them admitted to intensive treatment centers (ICS).

Uruguay remains in the yellow zone of the Harvard index, which accumulates the weekly average of new cases of covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, with a record of 4.20 and two of the 19 departments are already in green: Durazno ( center) and Lavalleja (south-east).

On the other hand, the country’s borders continue to be closed to non-residents, with exceptions for diplomatic, personal or economic and professional reasons, with the express authorization of the Executive.

Regarding vaccination, and according to the web monitor developed by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) until 5:20 p.m. (8:20 p.m. GMT) this Saturday, 313,212 people were inoculated with the first dose alone, while 2,283,932 (64.46% of the population) have already completed the vaccination schedule of Chinese pharmaceutical laboratories Sinovac, the Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca and the American Pfizer.

Uruguay opened the agenda this week for those who – after being immunized with Coronavac or AstraZeneca – choose to receive a third dose, in this case of Pfizer, as approved last week by health authorities. In this sense, nearly 900,000 people have applied for his appointment, according to the same source of the MSP.

THE VARIANTS

Uruguay presents 45 active Delta variant cases, one of Alpha and one of Lambda of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as also reported by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP).

The portfolio has indicated that it has been maintained since July 1 “a strategy to strengthen surveillance focused on travelers entering the country from abroad, with the aim of controlling the entry through the borders of new variants ”.

According to the official text, the entry has been verified so far “three worrying variants and one interesting variant“, including cases”They were identified, then isolated and their contacts traced”.

Thus, the MSP has confirmed that community circulation of variants was not detected.

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