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The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, reported today that the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a study on how covid-19 case reporting systems evolved in different countries around the world. Either updating figures or making methodological changes in the way of accounting for confirmed cases.
Paris stressed that the report on changes and errors in the data puts Chile “in a very good position and highlights that we have only made two methodological changes that the population and specialists in Chile know very well.” “These changes have been to correct and make our figures much more efficient and clearer ”, explained the Minister of Health. And among the examples, he mentioned the modifications made by countries such as Germany (7) France (7), Sweden (26), Switzerland (7) and the United States (7).
Daily balance # COVID-19
🔹 1,811 new cases
🔹 1,189 cases with symptoms
🔹 600 asymptomatic cases
🔹 22 not notified
🔹 490,003 total cases
🔹 13,703 assets
🔹 462,712 recovered
🔹 59 deaths registered (13,588 in total) pic.twitter.com/qcT5n5qnup– Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) October 17, 2020
PCR tests in the last hours
Paris also highlighted that in the last hours in Chile 3,857,820 PCR tests have been carried out. Thus, reaching a rate of 196,660 tests per million inhabitants. It is a number close to developed countries.
This, according to the minister, has been achieved by the improvement that has been made to the testing, traceability and isolation strategy. “It allows Chile to be recognized today as the country that performs the most polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests in all of Latin America,” he added.
Related to the above, the Secretary of State highlighted that the positivity of the tests at the national level reached 5.2%. While the Metropolitan Region “today breaks a record and reaches only 3%”. “Despite the fact that we have done a very important number of exams,” he said.
In addition, Minister Paris stressed that the variation in confirmed cases continues to decline. Since, to date, there is a fall of 6% in the last seven days and 9% in the last 14. However, he assured that as health authorities they remain concerned about the advance of the pandemic. And that you should not lower your arms in the fight against the disease.
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