This Saturday the Government, through the Ministry of Health (Minsal), delivered a new report on the spread of the coronavirus in Chile.

In the last 24 hours, 1,568 new cases and 49 deaths related to the pandemic.

Of the new infections, 1,026 are symptomatic and 519 are asymptomatic.

Since the covid-19 pandemic arrived in our country, total cases have risen to 519,977. From them, 9,334 remain active.

In addition, the authorities indicated that in the last hours 49 people lost their lives due to causes associated with this disease.

In the health network throughout Chile there are currently 734 patients hospitalized for coronavirus, of which 584 are connected to mechanical ventilation and 100 have a critical diagnosis.

Finally, the Minsal commented that yesterday Friday they took 39,290 PCR tests (4,541,869 in total).