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The Araucanía Sur Health Service confirmed that they only have six critical beds available. In addition, the region reported 149 new coronavirus infections, while active cases returned to below the 1,000-person threshold.
185 hospitalized people with covid-19, 59 of them in Critical Patient Units and 40 connected to mechanical ventilation, is the panorama of the health care network at the regional level, which is on the verge of collapse.
According to the latest report from the Araucanía Sur Health Service, in Cautín there are only five critical beds available and the Hernán Henríquez Aravena Hospital has just one.
In this regard, the independent senator Carmen Gloria Aravena asked the Ministry of Health to convert more beds, which, according to what she said, would allow for twelve more.
“We see an eventual collapse in the hospital network Within the next few days, we are aware that the necessary equipment exists in the region to enable 12 more critical beds for the treatment of covid patients, ”he said.
Regarding the newly infected, these were divided into 108 with symptoms, 35 asymptomatic and six not notified, which, after the result of 1,443 PCR tests, gave a daily positivity of 10.32%.
The communes that had the highest increases were Temuco, which observed 29 infected; Lautaro, who had 19; Angol, with 16; Padre Las Casas, with 13 and Curarrehue, with 11.
Thus, the region totals 18,923 positive cases, of which 992 are considered active. Thus, the rate of transmitters of the virus again fell below the threshold of one thousand people, keeping Temuco with 276, at the head of this index.
After La Araucanía found deaths for five consecutive days, this Tuesday there were no new deaths, so the indicator remained at 250 fatalities.
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