The Ministry of Health assures that, during the last six weeks, the cases of coronavirus They show a downward trend and there are fewer and fewer infected people who are hospitalized in the country’s intensive care units.
Argentina experienced the maximum peak of the illness during the second week of January, when more than 800 thousand infections were reported. The presence of the Omicron variant of coronavirus It generated the largest spike in infections since the arrival of the pandemic.
Health authorities maintain that, since then, cases of coronavirus they dropped to 96.83% and a decrease of 56% in the number of people who died daily and 11.71% in the number of hospitalized in intensive care was confirmed.
In the last 24 hours, 83,258 active cases of the virus were recorded, which means only 0.96% of the total cases registered to date, a total of 8,929,898. Regarding hospitalizations in intensive care, the occupation is 39.5% at the national level and 40% in the AMBA (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area).
Deaths among unvaccinated people amount to 7.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, while this number drops to 2.3 among people who have only received a single dose or with the complete vaccination schedule applied more than six months ago.
Mortality among those who have received three doses of the coronavirus vaccine and among those who have had two doses applied less than 120 days ago or have had three vaccines against the COVID-19 it is 0.9 per 100 thousand inhabitants.
The effect of the Omicron variant
The Ómicron variant became the predominant one at the national level, as has happened in other countries of the world and has proven to be less serious than the rest of the previously identified variants. Its symptoms were mild in most of the people vaccinated.
The mutation affects less people with the complete vaccination schedule, which in Argentina represents more than 80% of the total population. The immunization campaign is advancing and the authorities, for the time being, have not confirmed the application of a fourth dose.
