Uruguay registers 1,363 new cases of covid-19 and one deceased

Montevideo, 22 Mar Uruguay recorded 1,363 new infections of covid-19 on Tuesday on a day in which a person diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus died, according to the daily report of the National Emergency System (Sinae). Of the 11,426 analyses that were carried out during the day, 1,363 showed positive results, so Uruguay reached a cumulative number of 877,763 cases since the declaration of a health emergency in the South American country due to the appearance of the first cases on March 13, 2020. Of this total, 9,781 are people who are suffering from the disease and 44 of them are in intensive care centers (CTI). On the other hand, on this day there was one fatality, so the total number of deaths from covid-19 increased to 7,142. Uruguay is facing its second wave of covid-19 after the arrival of the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was detected in December, which increased the number of infections and deaths from the disease. Regarding vaccination, according to the web monitor developed by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) until 19.23 hours (22.23 GMT) on Tuesday 2,832,675 people (79.95% of the population) completed their immunization schedule of the Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinovac, Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca and American Pfizer with two doses. In addition, 137,402 people were inoculated with the first dose alone, while 2,154,060 received some booster dose. CHIEF cmm/cfa