BRASILIA, March 13 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil registered 45,020 new COVID-19 cases and 389 related deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its total caseload to 29,350,134 and national death toll to 654,945, the Ministry of Health said.
Many cities and states eased masking and social distancing requirements this month after the surge in cases caused by the Omicron variant at the beginning of this year faltered due to widespread vaccination campaigns, according to experts.
As of Friday, 157.3 million people, or 73.24 percent of the population, had been fully vaccinated and 68.8 million, 32.05 percent of the population, had received a booster dose, according to official data.
Brazil ranks second worldwide in the number of COVID-19 fatalities, behind the United States, and third in caseload, following the United States and India.
BUENOS AIRES: The Argentine Ministry of Health on Saturday reported 2,986 new cases and 71 deaths from COVID-19, raising its total caseload to 8,970,196 and national death toll to 127,122.
A total of 8,769,953 people have recovered from the disease, and there are currently 73,121 active cases of the disease, with 738 patients hospitalized in intensive care units, whose occupancy at the national level is 38.1 percent.
The province of Buenos Aires, the most populous in the country, has registered the highest number of infections with 3,511,644 cases, followed by the autonomous city of Buenos Aires with 1,006,039, and the province of Cordoba with 960,978.
As of Saturday, Argentina had administered 94,928,629 vaccine doses against the disease, according to the Public Vaccination Monitor. — NNN-XINHUA
