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In the hardest and most dramatic day since the first cases of coronavirus were detected in Chile, the Ministry of Health reported today that in the last 24 hours 22 people died, the highest number so far. In total, the Covid-19 has caused 368 fatalities in the country. In addition, the Minsal noted that there are 555 patients connected to mechanical ventilation, while on the last day 2,659 new cases were registered, of which 2,301 were with symptoms and 358 were asymptomatic.
Until today, Chile registers 37,040 cases, 1,938 per million inhabitants, a rate similar to that of Russia, Germany or Canada. But what most worries the authorities is the increase in deaths. For every million inhabitants, 19 people have died in Chile, a figure lower than that of Peru (66) or Brazil (64), but higher than that of Colombia (10) and Argentina (8). These indicators were known just before the 38 municipalities of the Metropolitan Region (7.4 million people) entered total quarantine as of Friday at 22:00.
“I am intensely concerned, because we have designed an anticipation of the response that I thought was going to be more necessary towards the month of June. We have had to advance it to May. Extreme measures, which are extremely harsh, have to achieve an objective, and that is that the number of daily infections will drop, at any rate, to less than 2,000, ”Minister Jaime Mañalich said in an interview with La Tercera.
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Coronavirus surviving couple: “We are saved by our discipline and strength”
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And in our Open House, the academic from the Department of Historical Sciences of the University of Chile, Luis Clemente, addresses the following dilemma: How can the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Europe be similar to current times?
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