Latin America has today crossed the barrier of one million deaths for Coronavirus reaching 1,001,366 dead people. The Brazil it is the most affected country in the region with its 15,894,094 cases of contagion and 444,094 deaths, almost half of the total. In addition to Brazil, the other two Latin American giants, Argentina (3,482,512 infections and 73,391 deaths) and Mexico (2,390,140 and 221,080), are faced with a complex picture of the unavailability of vaccines, a fact strongly denounced today at the Health Summit, promoted by the Italian presidency of the G20, by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
If then the alarming figures of these three nations are also added to those of Colombia e Peru, we come to the conclusion that 90% of deaths concern only these five countries of the subcontinent, which represent 70% of the entire population (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru).
Covid: Argentina, still high infections and deaths
Argentina still experienced a difficult day in the context of the pandemic with numbers still at the highest levels of infections and deaths, a situation that the government considers due to the effect of the second wave of the Covid-19 In its daily report, the Argentine Ministry of Health announced that 35,468 infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of cases to 3,482,512, and 695 deaths, for a general budget of 73,391 since March 2020 .
On Thursday evening, the President of the Republic, Alberto Fernández, announced a new tight lockdown of nine days, which is triggered today, in all areas considered to be of maximum risk, including Buenos Aires and its immediate province, where almost a third of the 45 million Argentine inhabitants.
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Brazil: CoronaVac vaccine efficacy at 42 per cent in over seventy
For the fourth consecutive day, Brazil recorded over 2,000 deaths for Covid-19. In the last 24 hours, according to the bulletin of the Ministry of Health, 2,215 have been, while new infections have been 76,855.
The total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic therefore rises to 446,309 and that of the infected to 15 million 970 thousand. Brazil is the second country in the world for the number of deaths after the United States and the third, after the United States and India, for positive coronavirus.
A study conducted by a group of Brazilian researchers with support from the Pan-American Health Organization (Opas) showed that the effectiveness rate of the anti-Covid developed by the Chinese company SinoVac was 42 per cent in a sample of 7,950 people over 70 with an average age of 76 years. The efficacy rate measures the effectiveness of the vaccine “in the real world scenario” and therefore measures how much the vaccine reduces cases of disease in the vaccinated population beyond scientific studies. In the case of the studies, the efficacy rate represents the proportion of case reduction between a group of vaccinated people compared to a group of unvaccinated people. In this case, the rate was 62.3 percent.
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Uruguay: second consecutive record of daily Covid infections
Uruguay recorded a record of new infections for the second consecutive day Covid with 4,604 positives out of 17,608 processed swabs. The highest number of cases is found in the province of Montevideo, equal to 1,965 in the last 24 hours. There were 69 deaths, of which 32 in the province of Montevideo. The occupancy rate of intensive care places reaches 78%, half for cases Covid.
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