Six new cases of the Delta variant of coronavirus were notified this Monday in Córdoba, which already has a total of 105 infected and two deaths as a result of that strain, according to the Government headed by Juan Schiaretti.
The official report detailed that the six new infections have an epidemiological link with people with a positive diagnosis of the Delta variant.
On the other hand, regarding the epidemiological situation in the province, 753 cases and 17 fatalities by Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Thus, the total number of infected since the start of the pandemic increased to 511.218, while accumulated deaths are 6.782.
Controls in the Rivadavia neighborhood, in the City of Córdoba
As for the recovered people, the proportion of discharges in relation to the total of confirmed cases in the province of Córdoba is 98 percent.
Regarding the critical bed occupancy Of the Intensive Care Units (ICU) for the treatment of coronavirus, 513 people are hospitalized, of which 99 (19.2 percent) are with mechanical ventilation.
Meanwhile, the vaccination campaign 3,946,791 vaccines have been applied, of which 1,555,332 correspond to the second dose that completes the immunization schedule.
Patient zero
The famous “case zero”, which alarmed Córdoba due to the arrival of the Delta variant, was notified last Thursday, July 26. It was a 62-year-old man of Peruvian origin and Argentine citizen who came from Lima and ended up dying from the disease on August 22.
This man – his identity was not disclosed to preserve his family – had traveled to Peru to try his luck in a job as a bricklayer, since he did not have a job here. After four months he decided to return.
Upon arriving in Argentina, the test was negative. But at 7 days, the control swab detected that he was infected. There it was learned that I had breached the isolation, which ended up causing a chain reaction.
Along with four other people, he was charged with the crimes of “violation of sanitary norms” and “spread of a contagious disease”, established in articles 202 and 205 of the Penal Code. The penalties contemplated for these cases are between 3 and 15 years in prison.
Although the prosecutor Andrés Godoy, from the Fiscal Unit of Sanitary Emergency (UFES), benefited with the release, they warned from the Justice that he would continue to be investigated and that he would be called for an investigation. However, his sad end closed the case.
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