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Asunción (AFP)
Paraguay registered 2,758 new infected with covid-19 and 134 deaths on Thursday, while its intensive care system is crowded, according to official data.
In the first nine days of this month, 1,092 deaths were reported. And, according to the projection of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the country is in the most critical period of the epidemic.
The last official report on Thursday registered 134 deaths, against 140 on Wednesday and 135 on Tuesday.
The total number of deaths reached 10,412 since the first case in March 2020 and the total number of infections has been 384,989 since then.
The ministry processed 9,356 samples on Thursday, of which 2,758 tested positive.
Health Minister Julio Borba said that the government seeks to remedy the oxygen shortage and officially requested Brazil to release this material for export to Paraguay.
In addition, the country’s intensive care beds are overcrowded with patients, admitted a spokesman for the Ministry of Health.
“At this moment Paraguay has 756 intensive care beds, most of which are occupied by patients with coronavirus. The occupation is 100%,” Angel Núñez, director of therapies at the Ministry of Public Health, told reporters.
The Archbishop of Asunción, Monsignor Edmundo Valenzuela, called on the Government to go back to a “zero phase” of the health quarantine “to stop the number of deaths that are registered daily.”
“Entrepreneurs and all of us must give priority to defending health,” the prelate stressed, referring to the private sector’s rejection of the return to quarantine.
However, the epidemic and hospitalization curve continues to accelerate. While the Government intensifies the campaign for mass vaccinations and included pregnant women on Thursday.
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