The Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic in India is out of control, with 30,000 to 400,000 people diagnosed every day, but a second wave of the pandemic is also occurring in Argentina on the other side of the world, with health care workers revealing that all hospitals are full.
According to Reuters, the Argentine Ministry of Health said that within the past 24 hours, a record number of 11,394 cases were confirmed in a single day, and 156 people died, and the cumulative number of cases has now exceeded 3 million, with 64,252 deaths.
Despite a tighter lockdown announced by President President Alberto Fernandez, medical staff lamented that it was not enough, “Everyone needs to know that the hospitals are overcrowded and that the medical staff is exhausted.”
Carlos Kambourian, a pediatrician, said the key to dealing with the outbreak is to speed up vaccinations, which have stalled, or the health system will have a hard time admitting new patients. If the government doesn’t do this, the embargo could last up to two years.
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