500,000 doses of AstraZeneca arrive today and Argentina exceeds 59 million vaccines received
A shipment with more than 500 thousand doses of the coronavirus vaccine produced by the AstraZeneca laboratory will arrive in the country and with this provision, Argentina will exceed the 59 million doses received since the start of the inoculation campaign, the Government reported.
The new batch with 530,300 doses will arrive at Ezeiza International Airport at 9:10 p.m. on flight AM0030 of the Aeromxico company from the Federal District of Mexico.
This shipment is in addition to the 760,625 doses of component two Sputnik V vaccines that were delivered by the Richmond laboratory this week, the 100,620 shipments from Pfizer arrived on Wednesday and the 200,000 from CanSino that arrived Tuesday.
The Strategic Vaccination Plan against Covid-19 advances throughout the country with a weekly application rate of more than 2.4 million doses in the last fortnight, so that more than 62.5% of the total population began its scheme, and about 40 percent completed it.
The Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, highlighted the effectiveness of the five-week shift of the electoral schedule that allowed the application of 12 million doses of vaccines against the coronavirus and affirmed that the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries ( STEP) this Sunday will be “a safe activity.”
A new batch with 530,300 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive at Ezeiza International Airport on Saturday at 9:10 p.m.
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According to current legislation, the PASO are held on the second Sunday in August and the general elections on the fourth Sunday in October, however, this year and for the only time, the National Congress -through a consensus reached between the ruling party blocs and the opposition- modified the dates due to the health emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The rationale for the approved law is that postponing the elections to months with higher temperatures would make it possible to optimize the ventilation of the polling stations and facilitate the implementation of sanitary protocols.
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, until this Saturday morning 51,970,024 doses of vaccines were distributed, of which 46,763,828 were applied (28,690,870 people received one dose and 18,072,958 already have complete immunization).
On the other hand, official sources reported that for 15 weeks Argentina has registered a sustained decrease in covid-19 cases, since there is a decrease of more than 91 percent in the number of people infected by SARS-CoV-2 between the peak of the May and last week.
In addition, Health officials highlighted that this was the 13th week of consecutive drop in the number of hospitalizations in intensive care units.
Thus, as of September 10, there was a 78 percent reduction in the number of intensive care hospitalizations compared to the peak of week 23 (7,839 versus 2,252).
In this way, the occupancy of ICU beds registers the lowest figure since the end of August 2020.
They also described this as week 13 of “consecutive decrease in the number of deaths” according to the date of death, from the maximum peak produced in week 22 of 2021, and the fatality in the country reaches 2.2%.
Cases are decreasing in most regions of the country and since the peak in May, with a daily average of 26,837 cases, a sustained decline has been recorded.
The daily average in June was 20,297, in July it was 13,338, in August it was 6,631, and so far this month of September it was 1,868, and currently there are no departments in a situation of epidemiological alarm.
The distribution of confirmed cases according to sex and age in 2021 remains sustained over time, 49% are male and 51% female, while 94.06% of COVID-19 patients recovered.
Compared to last year, 2021 saw a decrease in fatality in all age groups. In the age range from 60 to 69 years, the lethality decreased from 8.2% to 5.8%, in those over 70 years it fell from 19.2% to 12.7%, in those who are 80 years old it decreased from 31.1% to 22.5%, and in people over 90 years of age it fell from 35.6% to 30.6%.
The Gamma variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues as the predominant circulation in the country, followed by the Lambda variant and so far 349 cases with Delta variant have been registered, of which 318 correspond to travelers or contacts of travelers.
Of the rest of the 31 confirmed cases of the Delta strain, 15 were detected in CABA, two cases with residence in the province of Buenos Aires and one in Tucumn.
Meanwhile, in Cordoba, 13 cases of people who were related to each other, belonging to the same conglomerate with no connection with travelers, were detected.
86.2% of the population from 18 years of age already have the first dose, while 53.2% have already received the complete scheme, in addition, after federal consensus decided to prioritize the application of second doses, It has been achieved that 77% of the population aged 50 and over and 82% of the population aged 60 and over received both doses of the vaccine.
75.8% of people between 18 and 29 years old have already started their scheme; 85.6% of those over 30 years of age; 90.3% of those over 40 years of age; 91.8% of those over 50 years of age; 94.6% of people with 60 years; 93.1% of those who are 70 years old; and 84.2% of those over 80 years of age or older.
On the other hand, 29.8% of the people between 18 and 29 years old completed their scheme; 42% of those over 30 years of age; 51.8% of those over 40 years of age; 69% of those over 50 years of age; 81% of 60-year-olds; 85.4% of those who are 70 years old; and 77.3% of those over 80 years of age.
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