Uruguay surpasses 2,700 cumulative deaths due to Covid-19 (May 2)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Uruguay added this Sunday, April 2, 55 new deaths diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and reached 2,724 since the health emergency was decreed on March 13, 2020, according to the daily report issued by the National Emergency System.

In addition, 1,588 new cases were detected during the day after 6,538 PCR tests were performed.

Uruguay now has accumulated 202,492 cases of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 25,999 are people still have the disease, 556 of them admitted to intensive treatment centers.

According to the daily report presented by the Uruguayan Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 78.4% of the 1,013 beds in these centers are currently occupied, and coronavirus cases occupy 56.3% of these beds.

The department (province) with the most active cases continues to be Montevideo with 11,113, followed by Canelones (southeast) with 4,142.

At the moment, all 19 departments are in the red zone according to the Harvard index, having accumulated more than 25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days.

Concerning vaccination, 1,165,895 people have been inoculated with the first dose from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, the Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca, or the American company Pfizer, while 668,504 have received the second dose from Pfizer or Sinovac. This means that 33.67% of the country has had the first dose, and 19.30% the second.

The Honorary Scientific Advisory Group, which advises the Uruguayan Executive in its decision making on Covid-19, assured days ago that the country could resume an exponential trend in cases, something of “extreme gravity” if one takes into account that the health system “no longer has reserved space”.

This is explained in the first two reports presented this week, written by the Models and Data group.

“The epidemic in Uruguay is in a dire situation: all WHO indicators are at their highest level (TC4), and the response of the health system is in the limited category, as evidenced in particular by the situation of the CTI (intensive treatment centers),” the text stresses.

A study by the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, in conjunction with the University of the Republic, in which 500 samples of the disease were analyzed, showed 89% of Covid-19 cases in Uruguay are of the Brazilian P1 variant.