THE WEEK IN CORONAVIRUS
There were 2,824,652 confirmed cases of coronavirus contagion and 61,176 deaths at press time yesterday as against 2,658,628 cases and 59,084 deaths the previous Friday. On Monday at a working breakfast Economy Minister Martín Guzmán passing through Moscow anticipated Argentine production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine by Laboratorios Richmond, news which was confirmed by the lab itself the next day. In midweek Argentina topped the barrier of 60,000 deaths with almost 300 people dying of Covid-19 on Wednesday as Health Minister Carla Vizzotti spoke of the “worst moment of the pandemic” with hospitals increasingly saturated. Worse was to follow the next day with 537 deaths, a record that was broken just 24 hours later with 557 fatalities.
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Vice-Preisdent of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo human rights group, Mercedes Colás de Meroño, who died on Wednesday. | NA
Mercedes
Porota Colás de Meroño, the vice-president of the Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 95 at her home in Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires.
The campaigner’s death was confirmed by the human rights group, which paid tribute to her legacy denouncing the disappearances of opponents of Argentina’s brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
Colás de Meroño, despite her years of campaigning, however, was unable to be reunited with her missing daughter.