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For its part, La Araucanía also marked the highest regional positivity in the country (13%) and Magallanes could be on the way to containing its second wave.
The Ministry of Health reported this Friday, in its daily balance, a double record of daily infections in the regions of La Araucanía and Los Lagos.
At the national level, 1,773 new cases of COVID-19, 1,160 symptomatic and 584 without symptoms. And in particular, after the Metropolitan region (341), the significant rise in La Araucanía (319) and Los Lagos (261), followed from further behind by Bío Bío (247) and Maule (102).
While, Magellan it continues to present a decrease in the incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants, but it continues to be the highest in the country.
Anyway, could be on the way to containing its second wave, by reducing positivity to 8%, with 72 positives, after having spent many days with high positivity and infections, even marking over 300 daily cases.
Likewise, the balance showed a recovery in the testing rhythm, which had fallen to around 18,000 daily tests this week.
During Thursday the results of 37,359 PCR tests, reaching a total of 4,043,282 tests analyzed nationwide to date.
The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, reported that according to today’s COVID-19 report, “the variation of new confirmed cases at the national level decreases 12% for the last 14 days.” Likewise, seven regions decreased their new cases in the last seven days and 13 in the last 14 days.
Likewise, the authority highlighted that “the positivity rate in the last 24 hours is 4.75% and the average of the last seven days reaches 5% ”.
In this context, again highlights La Araucanía, which, in addition to the record rise in the number of cases, also marked the highest regional positivity in the country: 13%, followed from afar by Bío Bío, Los Ríos and Aysén (7%).
The amount total people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country reaches at 498,906. Of this total, 13,635 patients are in the active stage and 471,343 have been declared recovered.
Regarding deaths, according to the information provided by the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), in the last 24 hours there were 52 deceased due to causes associated with COVID-19, with which the number total deaths amounted to 13,844 in the country.
To date, 759 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units, of which 610 are on mechanical ventilation support and 91 are in critical health. In relation to the Integrated Health Network, there are a total of 403 ventilators available.
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