BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina has the rate of positive COVID-19 controls in the world, according to Oxford’s Our World In Data tracker, with nearly six out of 10 causing infection, reflecting low levels of control and flexible application of blocking rules.
Argentina affected 809,728 cases recorded on Monday, with a seven-day moving average of around 12,500 new contagions. The country, which strongly began to oppose the virus, claimed 20,000 lives last week.
Health professionals said low levels of testing and lax restrictions had driven the maximum positive rate, which fell from around 40% in August to just under 60% last week, according to a Reuters calculation from the Ministry of Health. Health.
“Is there isolation? Is there (enough) evidence?No, no,” Carlos Kambourian, a pediatrician from buenos Aires, told Reuters.
By comparison, New York State has a population of 20 million, less than Argentina’s forty-five million, but conducts 100,000 tests per day, 4 times more than Argentina. In New York State, the positive rate is more than 1%.
The Argentine government has been applauded for a complicated early blockade that began on March 20, but has since been forced to ease restrictions to help revive an economy that has already been in recession for two years and as poverty and unemployment levels have risen.
Kambourian added that there was little way to fitness services: “Strategies to prevent this type of pandemic are not actually being implemented,” he added.
A source from Argentina’s Ministry of Fitness said that the huge amount of positive controls is the result of its “Detect” program, where controls are concentrated on the contacts of other people known to be infected. The government had pledged to increase levels of control.
Argentina has the eighth highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world and is currently in the five new cases and most sensitive deaths on average for 7 days. Latin America is the most affected region in the world in terms of COVID cases and deaths. -19.
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(Reporting through Marina Lammertyn and Miguel Lobianco; Editing through Adam Jourdan and David Gregorio)
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