BUENOS AIRES, July 14 (Xinhua) — Argentina’s COVID-19 death toll reached 100,250 on Wednesday after 614 people died of the disease in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said.
In the same period, tests detected 19,697 new cases of COVID-19, meaning there have been a total of 4,702,657 confirmed cases since the onset of the pandemic here in March 2020.
Of the total number of cases, 276,004 are considered to be active, with 5,092 cases in intensive care units (ICUs).
The percentage of ICU occupancy nationwide is 62.2 percent, while in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area it is 60.1 percent, the ministry said.
Argentina’s vaccination campaign is progressing, with 20,934,210 people having received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 5,142,383 people having received both shots.
