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The Ministry of Public Health (SMEs) released this Friday the latest epidemiological report as of May 10, in which there is a rise in lethality and mortality due to the COVID-19 in Uruguay.
The lethality (How lethal is the virus in infected patients) increased from 1.32% to 1.42% compared to the last report on April 30. The same happened with the mortality which went from 74.09 to 89.81 per 100,000 inhabitants.
“Severity and fatality are significantly higher among men,” it notes as did the study as of April 30.
As of May 10, when there were 222,870 confirmed cases of COVID-19, of which 88% are considered “recovered” (3% more than in the last report).
The cumulative incidence also continues to rise. It went from 5,619.74 per 100,000 inhabitants in the April 30 report to 6,311.97. Meanwhile, the number of departments with an accumulated incidence in the last 7 days greater than the national one decreased. While in the last report they were Artigas, Cerro Largo, Montevideo, Río Negro, Soriano and Tacuarembó, now they are Montevideo, Salto, San José and Tacuarembó.
“Since epidemiological week five of this year there has been an increase
sustained in the number of cases, with a maximum in week 14 “, maintains the report.
Of the total confirmed cases as of May 10, “of every 100 cases, 96 required only outpatient management and 4 some type of hospital care (3 in moderate care and 1 required admission to ICU)”, an analysis that is maintained compared to the last study .
9,099 confirmed cases required hospital admission (from 4.0% to 4.1%) until May 10, of which 6,685 (3% of the total) received moderate care (ward). 2,414 patients (1.1% of the total confirmed cases, 26.5% of which required hospital admission) required admission to the ICU.
In addition, the trend is that the majority of confirmed cases are female. 52% (compared to 52.11% in the last report) of the more than 220,000 confirmed cases were women, increasing the incidence for this sex from 5,682.9 to 6,369.6 per 100,000 women, compared to the report as of April 30. There was also a jump in the incidence in men, from 5,503.5 to 6198.6 per 100,000 men.
The majority of those who died up to May 10 were between 75 and over, like the previous report, although the figure went from 1,416 to 1,653 people. In the 65 to 74 age group there were 777 people and in the 55 to 64 age group 448 people died.
From 45 to 54 years 195 people died, from 35 to 44 years there were 54, from 25 to 34 years there were 26 people and from 15 to 24 years 8 young people died (two more than in the last survey).
In addition, there are eight people whose age data is not available, but two children under 15 years of age (compared to one in the last study) died with a diagnosis of SARS-CoV2.
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