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Uruguay registers no deaths from Covid for the first time in 2021 (August 7)

By RT Staff Reporters · August 7, 2021 · 2 min read

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Five months after the beginning of the vaccination campaign, the country of 3.5 million people has 73% of its population inoculated with at least one dose, while 64% have the complete scheme.

Uruguay did not record any death from Covid-19 on Saturday, which had not happened since December 2020, amid the slowdown of the pandemic in the country.

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“Today, there was no death diagnosed with Sars-CoV-2 in our country,” announced the National Emergencies System (Sinae), the state body that registers cases of the pandemic, on Saturday afternoon. There were 83 new infections, following the more than 4,000 daily cases at the end of May.

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Health authorities have even approved a booster dose of the Pfizer immunizer for those who have already received two injections of Coronavac from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac.

The excellent immunization rates follow the sharp drop in the number of cases, deaths, and intensive care hospitalizations seen since June. The country counted 1,619 active cases on Saturday, a sharp drop from the peak at the end of May when there were 37,000 people hospitalized with the disease.

After remaining for several weeks as the country with the most deaths per day in relation to its population, with a record 79 deaths on April 15, the average has been three deaths per day in the last seven days. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 5,986 deaths from Covid and 382,360 cases of the disease.

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