Around midnight this Sunday, the Minsal released the 29th epidemiological report of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
According to the data, collected by the Epivigila system until 9:00 on Saturday, June 27, Rancagua suffered a sharp rise in active infections since the previous document, which had information collected until June 22 at 9:00 a.m. The capital of O’Higgins, went from 1,074 active cases to 1,344 in five days, the only commune not belonging to the Metropolitan Region with more than a thousand current infections and, therefore, the one with the most active cases at the regional level.
In addition, the historic city has the higher incidence rate in communes in regions with more than 100,000 residents, with 506.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In this item, at the national level, it is located in third position, after Renca (550.2) and La Granja (512.4).
In your report on Sunday, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, had expressed his concern for the O’Higgins Region, where – according to what he said – there is a “permanent increase” in cases, which has shown that quarantines were established in three relevant communes of the area: Graneros, Rancagua and Machalí.
According to the Secretary of State, the Antofagasta region also lives a complex situation, especially Calama.
The mining city is maintained with a number of active cases, 923. Although this number decreased compared to the previous report, when 978 were quantified, the commune remains the second with the highest number of infections in regions, after the capital of O’Higgins.
Also, its incidence rate is 484.9, seconding Rancagua in this item in non-metropolitan communes with more than 100 thousand people and in fourth national place in this section.
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