daily cases of coronavirus in Argentina they remained below 1,000 throughout the long Easter holiday. On this day, 428 new infections and 0 deaths associated with the virus were reported throughout the national territoryreported today the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
With this latest update, the country already has 9,060,923 infections and 128,344 deaths related to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, just over two years ago. On the other hand, some 8,897,661 people successfully recovered from viral disease.
In terms of daily incidence, Today, the jurisdictions of Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Jujuy, Salta, San Luis and Tierra del Fuego did not confirm new infections of coronavirus. While in the City of Buenos Aires (174), Misiones (102) and the Province of Buenos Aires (94) the largest number of infections were accumulated today.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, daily infections did not exceed ten this day. The list is completed by: Río Negro (14), La Pampa (13), Tucumán (7), Córdoba (6), Santa Fe (6), Entre Ríos (2), Formosa (2), Santa Cruz (2), Corrientes (1), La Rioja (1), Mendoza (1), Neuquén (1), San Juan (1) and Santiago del Estero (1).
In the last 24 hours, the daily positivity rate stood at 5.1% after carrying out 7,299 discard tests of coronavirus. In addition, there are currently 34,918 patients with active cases of Respiratory infection in all the country.
The total number of people hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU) fell today to 412 patients, which places the hospital occupancy rate at 37.5% nationwide and at 37.1% in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.
National Campaign for Public and Free Vaccination
According to the Nation’s Public Vaccination Monitor, until today’s 5:00 p.m. cutoff, a total of 97,644,273 vaccines had been applied against coronavirus throughout the Argentine territory, of the 105,014,714 doses distributed in the 24 jurisdictions of the country.
In total, some 40,677,307 Argentine men and women began the vaccination schedule with the first dose of the drugs, 37,130,432 vaccinated persons completed the schedule with both doses and 16,809,085 people reinforced the treatment with a third additional dose.
