Uruguay exceeds 900,000 accumulated cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic

Uruguay reached 902,540 accumulated cases since March 13, 2020, after registering 2,830 new covid-19 infections in the first 7 days of May, according to the weekly report published this Monday by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP).

As detailed in the document, in that period of time 23,634 tests were carried out and the positivity of these was 10.8%.

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At this time, 2,893 people are suffering from the disease.

In addition, the text explains that 58.4% of the beds in intensive care centers in the South American country are occupied and that only 1.3% have patients who were admitted through the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Finally, between May 1 and 7, 3 people died from the disease, bringing the death toll since the start of the pandemic to 7,213 people.

Regarding vaccination, according to the web monitor developed by the MSP, until 4:26 p.m. local time (7:26 p.m. GMT) this Monday, 2,865,637 people (80.88% of the population) completed their immunization schedule with two doses of the Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinovac, the Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca and the American Pfizer.

In addition, 119,805 people were inoculated with only the first dose, while 2,352,182 received a booster dose.

On April 4, and given the situation that the country was going through, both due to the high percentage of vaccinated and the immunization generated by the wave of omicron infections, according to the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinas, Uruguay ended the health emergency that had been declared on March 13, 2020.

In addition, on May 17, the last daily report of the National Emergency System (Sinae) was issued, since from then on the ministry began to issue weekly reports.

Source: Elcomercio

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