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The Ministry of Health reported 1,462 new cases and 38 deaths from coronavirus on Tuesday morning.
From the portfolio they valued the numbers in the traditional balance issued from La Moneda.
“It must be remembered that we did not have these figures since the first days of May, which speaks of this slight improvement that continues its course,” said the undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Arturo Zúñiga.
“We have already been improving for 51 days,” he stressed.
Precisely for the first time since May 11 (that is, 85 days ago) daily infections fell below the 1,500 threshold.
Since the start of the pandemic, 9,745 people with positive PCR have lost their lives and 362,962 contracted the virus
Positivity and patients
With 18,857 PCR tests reported in the last 24 hours (with a cutoff until 9:00 pm yesterday), the daily positivity rate reached 7.75%.
According to the government count, 1,126 patients are connected to mechanical ventilation and 227 are in critical health.
Check the interactive map of the national situation:
