Argentina registers 69,884 new cases and 65 deaths from coronavirus

Argentina registered this Sunday 69,884 new cases of the COVID-19, with which the total number of positives amounted to 7,862,536, while deaths rose to 119,168 after 65 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.

The figures mark a decline from the infections reported on Saturday, when 98,146 infections were reported.

Meanwhile, the positivity rate reported on this day for the country as a whole was 69.6%, since 100,337 tests were carried out throughout the national territory.

According to official figures, there are 6.8 million people who were infected and have already been discharged, while the number of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of the coronavirus who remain admitted to intensive care units was 2,562 this Sunday. , growing in recent weeks but below the maximum peak of 7,969 on June 14.

The percentage of bed occupancy in intensive care units for all types of pathologies is 47.6% at the national level and 46.5% if only Buenos Aires and its outskirts are considered.

After months of a favorable epidemiological situation, last October the Argentine government relaxed most of the health restrictions in force until then, including the total opening of the borders.

However, the cases began to rise again from November and took a dizzying pace in the last weeks of December, giving rise to a third wave of covid-19 in the country.

For this reason, the Argentine government imposed from January 1 the use of the health pass, which will require proof of complete vaccination schemes to be able to attend activities considered to be of “epidemiological risk”, such as massive events outdoors or in closed spaces.

The Minister of Health of Argentina, Carla Vizzotti, affirmed that in the last week she observed “a decrease in the number of cases compared to the previous three”, in a context of “exponential increase in the number of cases”, in the provinces that began the increase in infections, such as Córdoba, the city of Buenos Aires, the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, as indicated last Thursday at a press conference.

Meanwhile, Argentina, with some 45 million inhabitants, continues with its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus that began at the end of 2020.

According to official data from the health portfolio, so far 84.8 million doses have been applied and another 95.8 million have been distributed, of which more than 5 million were donated.

More than 39.3 million people received the first dose of the vaccine, while 34.4 million were already inoculated with the second.

Likewise, 2.9 million Argentines have received an additional dose (when the initial immune response is probably insufficient) and another 8 million received a booster dose or third dose, within the framework of the vaccination strategy started in October to reinforce the immunity of various groups.