After a sudden spike in cases of coronavirus in the country, today’s figures fell again. According to the latest epidemiological report issued by the National Ministry of Health, In the last 24 hours, 1,697 new infections and 44 deaths associated with the virus were reported.
In sum, today the country accumulates 9,006,526 confirmed cases of coronavirus and a total of 127,483 deaths related to the illnessthe second highest infection rate in all of Latin America and the fifth in terms of mortality.
On this day, the province of Formosa was the only jurisdiction in the country that did not register cases of coronavirus in the last day; while the Province of Buenos Aires accumulated the highest incidence of infections in the entire territory, with 592 infections in one day.
Along the same lines, they are followed by the provinces of Misiones (298), CABA (238) and Córdoba (153), with more than 100 infections in one day. For its part, in the rest of the country, the daily incidence did not exceed one hundred cases:
- Tucuman (87)
- Between Rivers (57)
- Pampas (50)
- Santa Fe (44)
- Saint John (27)
- Neuquen (26)
- Saint Louis (25)
- Mendoza (24)
- Chaco (21)
- Chubut (11)
- Holy Cross (9)
- Currents (7)
- Catamarca (6)
- La Rioja (6)
- Black River (6)
- Land of Fire (4)
- Jujuy (3)
- Jump (2)
- Santiago del Estero (1)
However, according to data from the Ministry of Health, there are currently 7,1064 people with active cases the virus, of which 699 are hospitalized in the country’s Intensive Care Units (ICU). This places the national UTI occupancy rate at 39.2% and 40.1% in the AMBA.
Strategic Vaccination Plan
Based on the data published by the Public Vaccination Monitor, until the cutoff at 5:00 p.m. today, Saturday, March 19, a total of 95,686,407 vaccines against the coronavirus in all the country.
- People with a single dose: 40,554,610 (89.4% of the population).
- People with two doses: 36,800,664 (80.4% of the population).
- People with a third booster dose: 15,303,536 (40.2% of the population).
