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A total of 41 communes of the country exceed 100 active cases of coronavirus. This according to the figures of the 78th Epidemiological Report of the Ministry of Health, published this afternoon, and which reported that Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas and Concepción continue to lead in this indicator.
In relation to the previous document -of December 16-, the capital of the Los Lagos Region once again positioned itself in the first place and currently has 455 active cases; that is, 32 positives more than in the last report.
Concepción also saw a rise in this number -from 400 to 418-, while Punta Arenas decreased very slightly from 423 to 420 active cases.
In the Metropolitan Region -which fell back to Transition last Thursday-, There are twelve municipalities that count figures higher than one hundred in this index: Puente Alto, Maipú, La Florida, Pudahuel, Las Condes, San Bernardo, Ñuñoa, Peñalolén, Lo Barnechea, Renca, El Bosque, Central Station.
Check below the list of communes with the most active infections in the country.
- Puerto Montt: 455 active cases
- Punta Arenas: 420 active cases
- Conception: 418 active cases
- Valdivia: 416 active cases
- Los Angeles: 392 active cases
- Iquique: 344 active cases
- Chillán: 324 active cases
- Puente Alto: 324 active cases
- Temuco: 300 active cases
- Colonel: 290 active cases
- Antofagasta: 271 active cases
- Maipú: 259 active cases
- Talcahuano: 257 active cases
- Santiago: 249 active cases
- Curicó: 244 active cases
- Viña del Mar: 242 active cases
- San Pedro de la Paz: 223 active cases
- Valparaíso: 220 active cases
- Talca: 203 active cases
- Florida: 200 active cases
- Alto Hospicio: 180 active cases
- Arica: 171 active cases
- Osorno: 167 active cases
- Chiguayante: 166 active cases
- Pudahuel: 162 active cases
- Las Condes: 157 active cases
- San Bernardo: 152 active cases
- Rancagua: 151 active cases
- Angol: 145 active cases
- Ovalle: 134 active cases
- Ñuñoa: 131 active cases
- Burbot: 131 active cases
- Hualpén: 124 active cases
- Arauco: 121 active cases
- Peñalolén: 115 active cases
- Tirúa: 109 active cases
- Lo Barnechea: 107 active cases
- Renca: 107 active cases
- El Bosque: 102 active cases
- Penco: 101 active cases
- Central Station: 100 active cases
In parallel, the Ministry of Health published the weekly report of deaths from Covid-19 of the Department of Health Statistics and Information (Deiss).
In its twenty-seventh version, the document reported a total of 21,421 suspected and confirmed deaths. The Metropolitan Region concentrates the highest figure – adding both indicators – with a total of 13,662 deaths.
As detailed in the text, at the national level currently 16,101 deaths have been confirmed, a figure that the Minsal reported today in the health balance. While 5,320 have not yet been confirmed as caused by the virus.