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The team ICovid Chile, an initiative led by the University of Chile, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of Concepción, presented its 20th report on Thursday, a document where alert of a sustained increase in new cases since November.
In this line, the report maintains that in the last week “between 1,816 and 1,958 new daily cases were registered, while the week of November 15 there were between 1,336 and 1,398 new daily cases, which was already a high level of contagion. This equates to an increase of nearly 40% in cases“.
He specifies that “almost all regions have a worrying level of transmission except for the Magallanes Region, which has decreased its number of reproduction during the last week. No significant change observed in transmission compared to the previous week for no region. “
Regarding positivity, remains stable at around 5 percent At the national level, the Biobío, La Araucanía and Los Lagos regions are “in a worrying situation, maintaining a positivity of around 10% (8.9%, 10.0% and 9.8%, respectively)”.
“Tarapacá and Maule increased their positivity from the previous week from 6.0% to 8.0% and from 6.8% to 7.7%, respectively,” he adds.
OCCUPANCY OF BEDS AT CRITICAL LEVEL
Meanwhile, the occupation of beds nationwide “this week remains at levels considered critical (around 85%), with important variations between regions “; however, the proportion of use of ICU beds by Covid-19 patients nationwide is 29.5 percent” showing a slight decrease compared to previous weeks.
The researcher in Public Health and academic of the School of Government of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Eduardo Undurraga, explained that these figures “correspond to a level that we consider critical and, therefore, it is urgent to attend “.
“Although the Ministry has implemented a model of hospital management of beds nationwide so that patients can move from one region to another, the high values of this indicator and the sustained increase in recent weeks suggest that the health system it has limited capacity to incorporate Covid patients, “he said.
The report details “An important prevalence of non-COVID ICU cases, possibly due to the reactivation of health benefits suspended during the pandemic. However, in the regions of Los Ríos (63.6%) and Biobío (53.8%) the highest proportion of ICU beds in use correspond to Covid patients “.
Meanwhile, the weekly variation rate of total hospitalizations for Covid-19 remains for the second consecutive week around 4 percent, with an upward trend in hospitalizations for Covid-19, which “had not been seen since the end of September.”
