According to a report from Ministry of Health of the Nation, in the last week they were reported in Argentina 2,082 new cases of covid-19 and 9 deaths caused by the disease. Likewise, 245 sick patients are hospitalized in intensive therapyin a country that has bed occupancy of intensive care at 41 percent.
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The figures generate concern due to the slight increase in infections, since they have increased 11 percent in contrast to last week, when there were 1,870 new cases. However, the trend of fatal cases remains downward with 25 percent less than the 12 reported in the previous report.
Situation #COVID19 in Argentina
Confirmed in the week: 2,082| Total: 9,717,546 cases
Deaths in the week: 9| Total:129,979
Occupancy of ICU beds: 245
Total occupancy percentage of adult ICU beds:
– Nation: 41%
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– Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) October 23, 2022
Since March 2020, in Argentina have been detected 9,717,546 cases since the start of the pandemic and 129,970 people have died from the disease across the country according to data from the University JohnsHopkins.
Refering to vaccination, 109,827,384 doses of vaccines have been applied throughout the country, of which 41,019,104 people have received at least one of them and 37,861,384, both, thus completing the scheme; and 3,155,449, an additional one.
New variants alert Argentina
According to the newspaper The nationthe Health Minister Nicholas Kreplakwarned this week about the expansion of two variants of covid-19 that are spreading rapidly in several northern countries.
Kreplak referred to these variants after the North American authorities considered that they are strains ‘problematic‘, due to the growth in the number of cases in recent days.
New waves are beginning that at the moment do not have much international impact
The official of Axel Kicillo thus referred to the strains BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, which come from ómicronthe variant that had generated a massive outbreak of covid-19 cases in several countries, including Argentina.
“There are two variants of coronavirus that have not yet arrived here, that are taking place in the northern hemisphere, where autumn is already beginning,” Kreplak stated.
However, the official sought to bring calm. “New waves are beginning that at the moment do not have much international impact. Let’s think that we already had two waves in our winter that did not generate an increase in hospitalizations, so I think that for now it is not a time to be alarmed,” he added. .
The head of the health portfolio referred in this context to the circulation of respiratory diseases, a phenomenon that he linked to the spring season. He acknowledged that it is “flu A”, as it happened in the previous months, although he indicated that there is no alarm.
“There is no alert, let us think that at this time of year some respiratory diseases such as the flu, some coronavirus are mixed, but little circulation and a lot of allergies. So don’t worry,” he said.
Similarly, ómicron could mutate into subvariants that cause a new wave of covid-19. This is indicated by an article published by the renowned North American scientific magazine Science.
The research warns that the new strains could be derived from the new “immunoevasive” variants. Infectologists consider that scenarios of high transmissibility in Argentina could be considered, but they do not foresee that the new strains will cause more serious forms of the disease.
* INTERNATIONAL WRITING
* With information from GDA.
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