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This Thursday the health authorities delivered a new balance on the advance of the coronavirus in the country, an opportunity where 1,662 new cases were reported.
On the occasion, the minister referred to a significant increase in cases, noting that “only five regions of the country and This is very worrying, and instead eleven regions of the country increase their cases ”.
“In addition, for a long time that the CRP did not go up, the positivity of the CRP. At this time, at the national level, an average positivity is 5%, ”he said.
Along these lines, he added: “We also observe an increase in the effective R, which is an index of the contagion capacity of a person who is infected with the coronavirus “.
“We can see how from the end of October, the first days of November and until the end of November and the beginning of December the effective R has increased enormously in the Metropolitan region,” he assured.
It also stated: “Ideally, the R is under one. That obviously gives us assurance that the transmission is not so active, but in this case we have 1.14 of R and that is a worrying index “.
“Another worrying index that we also want to show and transmit (…) is the increase in active cases that is observed in some communes of the Metropolitan region,” he argued.
Regarding the same, he indicated that “between November 25 in blue and December 9 in red, these are worrying figures that have called us precisely to decree phase two in the Metropolitan region “.
“These are very worrying figures, the people and we, the authorities, must understand that we are facing a risky situation and also reinforce that the decisions we make are always made based on data,” he said.
Finally he said that “The data evidently shows us that the Metropolitan region is at a critical level and is growing at a level that we have not seen for a long time.That is why data and experience tell us that it is time to make decisions and those decisions must be taken now ”.
Figures
Regarding the new infections nationwide, 1,128 correspond to symptomatic people and 517 to people who do not have symptoms. In addition, 17 Positive PCR tests were recorded that were not reported.
On this occasion, the Bío Bío region reached a new peak of daily infections, reaching 407, a figure never before seen in the region. Similarly, for the first time in 47 days, there were once again more than 10,000 active cases nationwide. Also, the number of deaths is the highest in the last 14 days.
The total number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country reaches 566,440. Of this total, 10,057 patients are in the active stage.
Regarding deaths, according to the information provided by the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), In the last 24 hours, 84 deaths were registered due to causes associated with COVID-19. The total number of deceased amounts to 15,774 in the country.
To date, 671 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU), of which 498 are on mechanical ventilation support and 69 are in critical health. In relation to the Integrated Health Network, there are a total of 287 ventilators available for the patient who requires it, regardless of the region where they are located.
Regarding the Laboratory Network and the diagnostic capacity, yesterday the results of 32,509 PCR tests were reported, reaching a total of 5,659,403 tests analyzed nationwide to date.
Figures by region:
National summary:
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