Uruguay registers 44 deaths from coronavirus in one day and there are already 301 deaths in April

Uruguay this Thursday added 44 new deaths from coronavirus And, thus, there are already 301 deaths only so far in April, according to the daily report of the National Emergency System (Sinae).

Deaths from cases linked to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 were from people between 50 and 104 years old and 1,275 people have lost their lives due to this disease.

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Regarding the deaths, the general coordinator of the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH) -which advises the government on the management of the pandemic-, Rafael Radi, said during an extraordinary session of the Central Board of Directors of the University of the Republic that they are “Beginning to worry” the fatality rate of covid-19 since it went from 1.1 per 100 to 1.5 per 100 inhabitants.

Today 3,674 new cases were also detected in 18,209 analyzes and, since the health emergency was declared on March 13, 2020, there are already 130,657 accumulated positives.

Again, the worst department (province) was Montevideo as it registered 1,630, followed far behind by Canelones with 659 and Rivera with 184.

At this time, in Uruguay there are 28,141 people who are suffering from the disease, of which 437 are in intensive care.

The president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, spoke this Wednesday at a press conference to announce the extension, until April 30, of the measures announced on March 23, such as the absence of classes, the closure of the ‘free -shops’, gyms and sports clubs and limited hours of bars and restaurants until midnight.

However, he reiterated his intention not to add other rules to restrict mobility. “We ask that, as far as possible, people move as little as possible,” he said.

The Sinae maintains that there are 707 occupied intensive care beds out of the 943 available, which is 75%. Of that total, 46.3% correspond to patients with covid-19.

However, the daily report of the Uruguayan Society of Intensive Medicine handles other figures, since it highlighted this Thursday that there are currently 447 hospitalized in ICU for covid-19 and that 702 beds are occupied by 927 operations. In addition, he pointed out that the total occupancy is 75.9% while that of covid-19 represents 48.3%.

Currently, the entire country is in the red, according to the Harvard risk index, and the border departments with Brazil, Cerro Largo and Rivera, continue to be the most affected with 144.31 and 144.98, respectively, while the country registers an average of 91.55 new cases in the last seven days.

Regarding vaccination, 797,423 people have already been inoculated with the first dose of Coronavac or Pfizer, while 162,681 have already received the second dose. In this way, there are already 22.74% of the country with the first part of the vaccination and 4.64% completely immunized.