This afternoon, the Minister of Health Enrique Paris, together with the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, released as every day the daily report on the evolution of the coronavirus in the country.
Regarding the number of cases, the head of the Health portfolio indicated that it remained down, with a decrease of -23% in the last 14 days and -12% in the last 12 days.
“I want to emphasize that we are in no way going backwards”He indicated, adding however that “regrowth may occur”, and therefore “we maintain the alert.”
In addition to this, he highlighted that Chile reached 100,000 tests per million inhabitants, a figure that he highlighted is on a par with European countries.
“We are very aware that we must reinforce traceability and isolation, both factors depend on the effort of the health authority and also depend on the responsibility of the people,” he said.
Regarding the rise in cases that has been registered, he indicated that some of the factors that influence this is that we are in a number of daily examinations “Close to 29 thousand examinations” and therefore “that allows to detect more cases”.
In addition, in the Metropolitan Region, he indicated, the search for active cases has detected 23% of the cases.
“It is obvious that by performing more tests and detecting more cases, it can be a factor that influences the R (0) – the amount of infections that a person can produce -. We will continue to insist on testing, traceability and isolation”, He added. “We listen to the opinion of the experts and the participation of all is required, in particular of citizens and health personnel.”
Regarding the daily balance, Undersecretary Daza reported that 2,077 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, of which 1,396 are cases with symptoms, 616 are asymptomatic cases and 65 are unreported cases.
With this, the total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic is 382,111. Of these, 16,734 assets and 355,037 are recovered.
About the deceased, The undersecretary reported that 41 deaths were reported according to the information provided by the Deis.
With this, the deaths amount to 10,340 in total.
In terms of patients, there are 1,252 hospitalized, of which 1,924 are on mechanical ventilation and 207 in critical condition. In total, added the undersecretary, there are 522 fans available
With regard to the tests, according to Daza, the laboratories reported that in the last 24 hours they carried out 27,618 PCR tests to reach a total of 1,960,210 tests.
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