translated from Spanish: Bonaerian government admits “a drop in cases” but the number “remains high”

In the midst of the second wave of coronavirus, the chief of staff of the Ministry of Health Salvador Giorgi argued that while there was a drop in new coronavirus cases the number of contagions “remains high”. In dialogue with El Destape Radio, the official noted that although “cases tend to go down” this is not the case “the number of people who are admitted to therapy”, where “many beds of therapies are vacated by deaths”.
“Two weeks ago, we had the peak of cases with a weekly average of 11,000 cases, when in the first wave in 2020 the peak was 5,800 cases,” Giorgi warned and completed: “As much as the contagion curve is down throughout the AMBA and in the province, the numbers remain high.” In addition, it stated that there were municipalities that went down to Phase 2 “because of a high bed occupancy in some cases and in others because of the very high incidence of cases”, while other districts “have requested themselves to go down phase because they need to take more restrictive measures to accompany the measures taken by the government of the province”.

More than 3 million bonaerenses have already been vaccinated with the first dose. With the advent of Sinopharm vaccines, and soon from AstraZeneca, we will complete schemes with the application of the second dose. #NosVacunamos because it’s the only way out of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/9spsuHHaoj — Salvador Giorgi (@salvagiorgi)
May 11, 2021

On the other hand, he stressed: “We have been vaccinated with the first dose and 3 and a half million bonaerenses in total, we reached the first milestone.” Now the second milestone is opened, which is vaccination for pregnant people, people 40 and 59 years old with comorities, and over 60 without comorblities, is the second goal,” he said.

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