This Saturday, the Ministry of Health released a new balance of the pandemic situation, giving an account of a new top of cases, with more than 7 thousand new infections, becoming the highest point since the arrival of the virus, consolidating the second wave as worse than the first one last year.
Child 7,084 new positive cases of the virus, which brings the total infections to 925,089. Today are 37,048 active patients, the second highest since the change in methodology of this count (11 days from the onset of symptoms).
In addition, 93 registered deaths were reported in the last day, so that there are already 22,180 people who have died with confirmation of the examination.
Another sad record that is broken today is that of patients admitted to an ICU. Are 2,227 people, and 1,931 of them require mechanical ventilation.
There are only 198 beds available in the country.
76,275 PCR tests were processed in the last 24 hours. Their positivity was 9.08% at the country level and 8% in the MRI.
Five regions today reached a new record for daily cases: Valparaíso (695), O’Higgins (349), Maule (471), Bío Bío (970) and Araucanía (664).
A) Yes, O’Higgins is the 11th region to reach the maximum number of infections this year. Only Arica and Parinacota, Atacama, Aysén, Magallanes and the Metropolitana had the worst figures during 2020.
