The Argentine Ministry of Health announced yesterday Thursday that 128,402 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the previous 24 hours and another 139 patients died due to complications of COVID-19.
The death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic in the Latin American state of 45 million people thus reached 117,808 deaths out of a total of 6,793,119 infections.
According to official figures, the number of deaths announced yesterday is the highest since September 17, when 185 were reported.
Infections have multiplied compared to last month, due to the much more contagious Omicron variant. However, although they are also on the rise, deaths are not keeping pace with the outbreak, they are still far from – at least for now – the level of about 500 deaths per day in late May, in the most dramatic moments of the pandemic. Argentina.
According to the Public Vaccination Observatory, more than 81.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, with more than 74% of the population fully vaccinated. Booster doses continue.
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