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Argentina had this friday 12,969 Covid-19 infections, for which it reached 691,235 total cases, while 443 new deaths brought deaths to 15,208 since the pandemic began.
In its evening report, the Ministry of Health reported that the Buenos Aires province indicated today that 3,459 deaths from that jurisdiction that to date were not yet registered in the national accounting system will be added to their total deceased, which are already 12,566.
If these new figures are added, the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in Argentina stands at 18,667.
Likewise, the province of Buenos Aires remains the district with the most confirmed cases so far (394,435, of which 5,600 were reported this Friday), followed by the country’s capital, with 121,743 confirmed infections, 926 of them reported today.
These two districts went from concentrating more than 90 percent of the new cases in May to having a weight close to 50 percent due to the strong growth of infections in various parts of the interior of the country.
Figures adjustment
At a press conference, the Buenos Aires government acknowledged that there are 3,523 fatalities that have not yet been accounted for in the national health system.
This, after the recategorization of the data on deaths from the disease, which from now on uses information from three different databases: the Integrated Health Information System (SISA), the Bed Management System (SIGEC) and the Registry of Persons.
Until now, the death report was made only according to the data provided by the SISA, which required a lower death toll.
“This tool will allow us to report exactly what happens day by day,” reported the district Health Minister, Daniel gollan, quoted by the newspaper Clarion.
The authorities specified that “60 percent of the updated data correspond to the private sector and the other 40 percent to the public. Within the public sector, 39 percent correspond to provincial hospitals, 2 percent to national and 59 percent to municipal “.
The new system used by the province of Buenos Aires to count the deceased.
Regarding the discharge patients after overcoming the disease, there is already 546,924 of them in Argentina.
While, 3,595 people with a confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 remain admitted in intensive care units.
He occupancy percentage of intensive care beds for all kinds of pathologies is 61.7 percent at the national level. In Buenos Aires and its populous urban cordon, which make up the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, it amounts to 66.2 percent.
So far, in Argentina, where isolation measures have been in force since March 20, a total of 1.8 million tests to detect the virus, with a rate of 41,168 tests per million inhabitants.
The Argentine government extended last Friday the mandatory isolation measures, with certain flexibilities according to the districts, until next October 11.
The Argentine President, Alberto Fernandezsaid at a press conference on Wednesday that his country “is very far from overcoming the pandemic” and he warned of the growth of infections in the interior of the country.
The president was especially concerned about the epidemiological situation, especially in the provinces of Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza, La Rioja, Salta, Jujuy, Río Negro and Neuquén.
