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This Saturday, the Ministry of Health announced that the Bío Bío added 234 new positive cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Thus, the total number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began rose to 26,802, 1,902 of them active.
Cañete led the figures with 39 new cases (out of a total of 509 and 145 active patients). In the list they were followed by Concepción and Los Angeles, with 20; added to Coronel, with 18.
As to deaths, from the Seremi de Salud they encrypted in 405 deaths resulting from the disease in the area, four more than in the previous report.
Regarding the occupation of critical beds, between the public and private network, Health reported a availability of 18% of ICU beds and 16% of ICU units, in addition to 42 free mechanical fans.
With the entry of Cañete into quarantine, there are already five of the seven communes in the province of Arauco that are under this restriction provision.
Three of them were one month old: Curanilahue, Los Álamos and Lebu. Arauco for his part fell back into transition.
In the province in general they are 372 active cases registered to this day and 20 deaths due to the illness, which was discussed by Arturo Zúñiga, undersecretary of Healthcare Networks.
“The communes that are south of Bío Bío, Lota, Coronel and the province of Arauco (…) that is where we still see an increase in the number of positive cases, but we have to wait for the effects of these quarantines decreed very recently, “he said from the balance sheet in La Moneda.
– SeremiSaludBiobío (@ seremisalud8) October 17, 2020
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