According to the health report of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), last week the number of deaths from coronavirusin addition to 7,601 new infections, a decrease compared to the 9,817 registered in the previous week.
On the other hand, 23 deaths were reported coronavirus, seven more than the previous week, in which 16 people died from this disease. The respiratory virus It does not give truce and increases the accumulated number of infections and deaths, which reached 1,220,745 and 13,474 people respectively.
Outside the territory of CABA, the Buenos Aires health system reported 5,248 new cases of coronavirus. It’s known that, since the beginning of the pandemic who arrived in our country in the month of March 2020, 11,077,565 swabs were carried out in CABA, with a positivity rate of 18.6%. However, of the tests carried out in the last week, 50.5% were positive.
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The country where the first cases of this respiratory virus In 2019, China was once again the epicenter of infections. On this occasion, it affected 18% of its total population, 248 million people, in the first three weeks of December.
This exponential increase in cases could be due to the gradual removal of restrictions by the government of President Xi Jinping or to travelers arriving from abroad, a situation that was reached after massive marches by Chinese citizens who requested the cessation of the measures imposed to prevent coronavirus.
Following the massive demonstrations, it was decided that, As of January 8, 2023, China will reopen its borders and eliminate the mandatory quarantine for migrants arriving in the Asian country. On the other hand, the National Health Commission of China announced that it will stop publishing the daily cases of those infected and killed by the respiratory virus.
