BUENOS AIRE (Reuters) – Argentina’s record for COVID-19 infected persons has been broken. It now faces a third wave, with close to 100,000 per day cases, as the country is afflicted by the Omicron virus.

However, the 95,159 cases that were officially confirmed, occurring in the middle the Southern Hemisphere’s summer vacation season, with many tourists visiting tourist centres, did not translate into an exponential increase in COVID-related death, which was 52.

Sonia Tarragona (chief of staff at the Ministry of Health), stated that there is no significant impact on the intensive therapy units, and the deaths are much lower,” Urbana Play reported. The cases are either mild or moderate, and do not put stress on our health system.

Argentina’s vaccination campaigns have been accelerated in the recent months. They started with Sputnik V and were then expanded to include AstraZeneca (NASDAQ;) and Sinopharm. Later, CanSino was added. Pfizer (NYSE: Moderna (NASDAQ:).

Tarragona admitted that she is not sure “what the ceiling is for infections will be”, but experts agree the number of infected people is high.

Jorge Geffner (biochemist) said to Reuters TV that Argentina could have as many 150,000-200,000 new infections per day.

The infection peak was estimated to be in the middle of January.

According to the government, Brazil’s neighbor had 27267 cases per day and 129 deaths.