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 Guaraní.

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