Monday 15 March 2021

Argentina: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 53,670


Argentina: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 53,670

Argentina health minister resigns over COVID-19 vaccine scandal.

Al Jazeera English shows that Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has sworn in a new health minister, Carla Vizzotti, as he grapples with a scandal over COVID-19 vaccines.

The now-disgraced former minister, Gines Gonzalez Garcia is accused of allowing people with connections to jump the queue and receive vaccinations out of turn.

A similar scandal erupted in Peru a few days earlier, and both governments are scrambling to regain their people’s trust.

Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina is part of the global worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 3 March 2020, the virus was confirmed to have spread to Argentina. As of 14 March 2021, a total of 2,195,668 people were confirmed to have been infected, and 53,670 people were known to have died because of the virus. On 7 March 2020, the Ministry of Health confirmed the country's first documented death, a 64-year-old man who had travelled to Paris, France, who also had other health conditions. The case was really only confirmed as positive after the patient's demise.

On 19 March 2020, a nation-wide lockdown was established in Argentina. Responses to the outbreak have included restrictions on commerce and movement, closure of borders, and the closure of schools and educational institutions.

The meaning of the Argentina flag is interesting. The blue and white colors were chosen by Manuel Belgrano, the leader of the Argentinian revolution against Spain, and represent the blue sky parting to reveal white clouds, as is said to have happened when the Liberation demonstration began in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 25, 1810.

Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−04:00 or UTC−05:00 time zone. However, it actually uses the UTC−03:00 time zone.

Argentina's official language is Spanish. Argentina has other spoken languages: Arabic, Italian, German, English, and French. There are also over one million speakers of various tribal languages, including Quecha and GuaranĂ­.

Total Global Deaths from Covid-19: 2,657,629

Total Global Cases of Covid-19: 120,105,958

Countries with most cases of Covid-19:

29,478,109 USA
11,483,370 Brazil
11,385,339 India
4,350,728 Russia
4,276,828 United Kingdom
4,132,085 France
3,238,394 Italy
3,195,062 Spain
2,894,893 Turkey
2,585,206 Germany
2,303,144 Colombia
2,195,722 Argentina
2,166,290 Mexico
1,917,527 Poland
1,754,933 Iran
1,529,420 South Africa
1,516,865 Ukraine
1,425,044 Indonesia
1,412,406 Peru
1,402,420 Czechia
1,178,444 Netherlands
916,315 Canada
896,231 Chile
862,681 Romania
820,789 Israel
814,513 Portugal
808,283 Belgium
763,085 Iraq
712,527 Sweden
626,893 Philippines
607,453 Pakistan
573,815 Switzerland
559,168 Bangladesh
524,196 Hungary
520,911 Serbia
495,464 Austria
488,937 Morocco
486,470 Jordan
447,979 Japan
428,295 United Arab Emirates
419,953 Lebanon
382,752 Saudi Arabia
347,919 Panama
337,960 Slovakia
324,971 Malaysia
303,270 Belarus
302,221 Ecuador
278,557 Bulgaria
275,310 Nepal
275,148 Georgia
274,541 Kazakhstan
259,389 Bolivia
251,174 Croatia
246,299 Dominican Republic
242,124 Tunisia
240,671 Azerbaijan
227,316 Ireland
222,281 Greece
221,763 Denmark
211,602 West Bank and Gaza
210,855 Kuwait
209,093 Costa Rica
205,644 Lithuania
205,324 Moldova
200,579 Slovenia
190,924 Egypt
182,881 Guatemala
180,014 Paraguay
178,702 Armenia
178,277 Honduras
176,618 Ethiopia
170,733 Qatar
160,657 Nigeria
147,423 Oman
146,080 Libya
145,379 Venezuela
144,831 Bosnia and Herzegovina
142,147 Burma
131,001 Bahrain
118,017 Albania
115,265 Algeria
113,967 Kenya
112,930 North Macedonia
101,408 China
96,017 Korea, South
93,959 Latvia
87,985 Ghana
87,907 Sri Lanka
86,917 Kyrgyzstan
86,086 Estonia
84,950 Zambia
84,163 Montenegro
80,734 Norway
80,678 Uzbekistan
77,787 Kosovo
71,691 Uruguay
67,334 Finland
64,516 Mozambique
62,377 El Salvador
62,206 Cuba
60,117 Singapore
57,926 Luxembourg
55,985 Afghanistan
41,424 Namibia
40,622 Cameroon
40,581 Uganda
39,651 Cyprus
37,653 Cote d'Ivoire
36,996 Senegal
36,484 Zimbabwe
34,999 Botswana
32,789 Malawi
31,305 Jamaica
30,873 Sudan
29,130 Australia
27,077 Congo (Kinshasa)
27,005 Thailand
26,748 Malta
21,572 Maldives
21,380 Angola
21,356 Madagascar
20,186 Rwanda
17,851 Guinea
17,438 Mauritania
17,237 Eswatini
16,945 Gabon
16,478 Syria
16,101 Cabo Verde
13,308 Tajikistan
12,632 Haiti
12,372 Burkina Faso
12,370 Belize
11,289 Andorra
10,530 Lesotho
9,490 South Sudan
9,329 Congo (Brazzaville)
9,190 Somalia
9,160 Guyana
9,024 Suriname
8,913 Mali
8,658 Bahamas
8,183 Togo
7,783 Trinidad and Tobago
6,562 Equatorial Guinea
6,537 Nicaragua
6,501 Benin
6,294 Djibouti
6,083 Iceland
5,023 Central African Republic
4,985 Gambia
4,860 Niger
4,309 Chad
4,151 San Marino
4,083 Mongolia
4,053 Saint Lucia
3,937 Sierra Leone
3,635 Comoros
3,447 Guinea-Bissau
3,421 Barbados
3,315 Seychelles
3,038 Eritrea
2,908 Yemen
2,612 Liechtenstein
2,557 Vietnam
2,461 Burundi
2,430 New Zealand
2,173 Papua New Guinea
2,107 Monaco
2,078 Sao Tome and Principe
2,030 Liberia
1,680 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1,325 Cambodia
990 Taiwan*
963 Antigua and Barbuda
868 Bhutan
742 Mauritius
712 Diamond Princess
509 Tanzania
203 Timor-Leste
199 Brunei
156 Dominica
148 Grenada
66 Fiji
48 Laos
43 Saint Kitts and Nevis
27 Holy See
18 Solomon Islands
9 MS Zaandam
4 Marshall Islands
3 Samoa
3 Vanuatu
1 Micronesia

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