Authorities of the Chilean Ministry of Health put the new coronavirus infections at 4,406, bringing the total number of cases to 267,766, while 279 deaths registered in the Civil Registry were recorded, the highest number since the new death accounting was implemented in early June, bringing the deceased to a total of 5,347 people.
Regarding hospital capacity, there are currently 2,090 patients in intensive care units; 1,741 of them connected to mechanical fans. Within the latter, there are 419 people in critical condition.
Regarding the amount of equipment available at the country level, the Ministry of Health put the available mechanical ventilators at 267; 694 high flow oxygen therapy equipment and 304 anesthesia machines.
Vaccines from Europe
After the daily balance, the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, was consulted regarding the statements of the Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, in a report for the local magazine Qué Pasa regarding the evaluation that the government of Sebastián Piñera to participate, in addition to clinical trials for a vaccine against coronavirus of Chinese origin, in tests for vaccines from Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
“The Minister of Science is exploring together with a team of experts to see the possibility of exploration of other vaccines that are under development in European countries such as Germany and England”, Undersecretary Daza pointed out.
“They are working hard to see the possibility of also implementing the work of other vaccines in our country”, added the health authority.
With the new data released by the Ministry of Health this Saturday and when compared to the global records managed by the American Johns Hopkins University, Chile remains the seventh country worldwide with the highest number of cases of COVID-19 and the third at the Latin American level.
Regionally, Chile is only surpassed by Brazil, a nation that has 1,274,974 cases and Peru that has 272,364, just under 5,000 more infections than the southern country.
It should be remembered that since the arrival of the pandemic in Chile, the country is governed by a state of constitutional exception, which allowed it to establish a curfew. Other measures taken by the government of Pineapple They are the closing of borders, the replacement of classroom classes with a virtual modality, as well as the paralysis of non-essential economic sectors.
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