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The Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Rodrigo Delgado, tested positive for Covid-19, announced this Friday the portfolio.
The 46-year-old chief of staff underwent a PCR test after presenting symptoms of the disease and received the result this afternoon, as he was able to confirm Cooperative.
Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado tested positive for COVID 19. He had symptoms and this afternoon received the PCR result @Cooperative
– Valentina Godoy (@valegodoyb) March 12, 2021
NOW: from La Moneda they confirm that minister @RodrigoDelgadoM tested positive for # COVID-19 after having presented a fever .. they assure that in the last days there has not been close contact with the Pdte @sebastianpinera tell us @valegodoyb in #CooperativeInHome
– Mauricio Bustamante (@tv_mauricio) March 12, 2021
In a statement, the Ministry of the Interior He ruled out that Delgado had “close contact” with President Sebastián Piñera and the rest of the Political Committee.
“Since last night the minister has been at home and, after confirming this positive test, proper quarantine started, His close contacts were notified -among which is not the President and the rest of the Political Committee- and, in addition, a active process among other people who were also in person with the minister, as established by health protocols, “reported the Secretary of State.
However, yesterday, Thursday, the “number two” of the Executive moved to Arica, in the extreme north of the country, where he participated in a drug seizure activity, together with the undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, and the director of the PDI, Hector Espinosa.
Thus, Galli and Espinosa began a preventive quarantine, waiting for your PCR tests.
The general director of the Carabineros also began a preventive quarantine, Ricardo Yanez, with whom Delgado met on Wednesday.
Now the official statement of the Ministry of the Interior @Cooperative pic.twitter.com/OdNDyayf70
– Valentina Godoy (@valegodoyb) March 12, 2021
NOW: after confirming which minister @RodrigoDelgadoM tested positive for # COVID-19, undersecretary @GalliJF qualifies as close contact, director @PDI_CHILE starts preventive quarantine and director @Carabdechile waiting for PCR test result #CooperativeInHome pic.twitter.com/tb6hRl9sPm
– Mauricio Bustamante (@tv_mauricio) March 12, 2021
Delgado’s contagion was known at a time when Chile, with the hangover of the summer holidays, finds contagion levels close to the hardest moments of 2020 despite the successful vaccination process carried out by the country, the results of which are not yet visible.
The Ministry of Health reported this Friday of 5,983 new cases -the highest figure since June 19, when the epidemic hit the country most virulently-, bringing the total to 879,485 since the arrival of the coronavirus.
The figure gives continuity to the average of 4,000 infected daily that has been occurring since the end of February, with several peaks of more than 5,000.
Average weekly occupancy of beds Intensive care units (ICU) it continues to rise, reaching a critical level of 93.5 percent, up from 92.4 percent last week and 91.4 percent two weeks ago, according to a study by several universities.
Y with 89 new deaths, the total death totaled 21,451.
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