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The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, warned an increase in new cases of coronavirus in the last 14 days at the national level and expressed concern about the figures in the Metropolitan Region and Coquimbo.
In the delivery of a new balance due to the evolution of the pandemic, the Secretary of State reported that “the variation of confirmed cases at the national level in the last seven days is -1%, however, in the last 14 days we have seen a nationwide increase of 2% “.
“The variation of cases at the regional level, on the other hand, shows a 34% increase in Coquimbo. Please, I call on the population, the regional and communal authorities to stop this increase. They have increased by 34% in the last seven days and are leading the figures that are very negative for the population ”, added the minister in that line.
The Metropolitan region It has also been a source of concern for the authorities and, in fact, the Minsal announced last Thursday the setback in the Step by Step Plan of eight communes in the capital. Today, meanwhile, Paris assured that “the increase in MR is 10% in the last seven days” and called on those who changed the phase to “reinforce their controls and measures, if they are not going to continue to regress.”
Regarding the balance of the last day, the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Alberto Dougnac, reported that they were diagnosed 1,533 new cases -196 less than yesterday- and of them 1,014 are symptomatic, 494 asymptomatic, 25 not reported.
With this new report, the total number of confirmed infections since March in the country amounted to 558,668, with 9,509 active cases – that is, that can spread the virus – and 533,250 recovered.
In addition, according to data from the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), 34 new deaths were confirmed, totaling 15,592 deaths nationwide.
Regarding the healthcare network, there are 664 patients in intensive care units, 518 of them with mechanical ventilation support and 67 in critical condition.
Finally, in the last day, 40,161 CRP examinations were carried out, bringing the total to more than 5.4 million.
