Corona is wreaking havoc in all around the world. Argentina is also facing the virus. Argentina had registered 1,783,047 COVID-19 cases and 45,227 deaths as of Friday.With an exponential growth in confirmed cases in recent weeks, the Argentine government has extended preventive and mandatory social distancing measures to January 31. The government of Argentina on Saturday confirmed the first case of a new coronavirus variant in the country. This strain of corona was first identified in Britain and appears to be more contagious.

Argentina's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Roberto Salvarezza wrote on Twitter, "The new variant was detected in a traveller who arrived asymptomatic in Argentina from Germany at the end of December 2020." Salvarezza said that the Inter-institutional Genomics Project of SARS-CoV-2 under his ministry first detected the traveller's entry into the country.

Talking about Coronavirus cases, the cases rise unabated across the globe, with more than 93.5 million infected by the deadly contagion. While 66,797,824 have recovered, 2,001,208 have died so far. The US remains the worst-hit country with 23,847,250, followed by India, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom. However, it terms of the total number of active cases, US tops the charts, followed by France, UK, Brazil and Belgium.

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