Since the arrival of the pandemic in the country, the total number of people who have been diagnosed with coronavirus reaches, today, 9,049,250 cases. Of this total number of infections, some 43,755 patients are in the active stage of the virus and 8,877,337 have recovered from the disease.
On the other hand, in terms of deaths, The Ministry of Health of the Nation reported, today, the death of some 14 people due to the coronaviruswhich raises the mortality rate to 128,158 deaths, this since March 8, 2020 when the first patient died from respiratory infection in Argentina.
After carrying out 25,775 discard tests, a total of 1,842 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours: 615 in the Province of Buenos Aires, 379 in the City of Buenos Aires, 244 in Misiones and 137 in Córdoba.
With less than 100 infections this day, they are followed on the list: Chubut (94), Mendoza (51), Salta (44), Santa Fe (39), Santa Cruz (37), Entre Ríos (35), Neuquén (30) , Río Negro (27), Tucumán (27), La Pampa (25), Corrientes (14), San Luis (14), Formosa (11), San Juan (7), Jujuy (5), Chaco (4), La Rioja (4), and Catamarca (1).
The only jurisdictions that did not report positive cases today were Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego.
As of today, Thursday, April 7, there are 428 patients hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU) in the country, which raises the hospital occupancy rate to 37.6% nationwide. While in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), the COVID hospitalization rate is 38.3%.
Strategic Vaccination Plan
According to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor, Until the 5:00 p.m. cutoff, a total of 97,181,658 vaccines had been administered against the virus throughout the country, of the 105,003,764 sera that have been distributed in the 24 Argentine jurisdictions.
Specifically, some 40,646,311 people have received, to date, at least one dose of the inoculant drugs, while 37,049,437 Argentines and Argentines completed the scheme with both regimens. In addition, 16,458,417 vaccinated persons reinforced the scheme with a third additional dose.