BRASILIA July 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil registered 1,205 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 532,893, the health ministry said Saturday.
As many as 48,504 new cases were detected, taking the total caseload to 19,069,003, the ministry said.
Brazil currently has the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest caseload, after the United States and India.
As of Saturday, 112.9 million people in Brazil have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and over 29.9 million people have been fully vaccinated.
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina registered on Saturday 11,561 new cases of COVID-19, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 4,639,098, the Ministry of Health said.
Another 354 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 98,501.
The number of patients in intensive care units reached 5,427, with a bed occupancy rate of 63.1 percent nationwide and 60.9 percent in Buenos Aires and its periphery.
So far, 24,616,918 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been applied since the country’s vaccination drive was launched at the end of December 2020.
QUITO: Ecuador reported 903 new COVID-19 infections and eight more deaths in the last 24 hours, raising accumulated cases to 467,976 and deaths to 16,111, the Ministry of Public Health said on Saturday.
In the daily report, the ministry also reported another 5,703 deaths considered to be related to COVID-19, but not verified.
Ecuador is facing rising infections, which have saturated its hospital system.
The occupation of intensive care units is 85 percent nationwide, Minister of Health Ximena Garzon said, predicting that relief would only be had in September, when the government hopes to have 72 percent of the population vaccinated through the national vaccination plan.
On Friday, “we had more than 200,000 vaccinated (in a single day). We are going at a very good pace. We are increasing more vaccination brigades and enabling many more centers for people to go and receive their vaccine and avoid crowds,” said Garzon.
According to the health ministry, 5,142,998 vaccine doses against COVID-19 had been administered in the South American country as of Saturday. — NNN-XINHUA
