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The Bío Bío region exceeded 800 deaths due to the pandemic. Despite the high numbers that the region has experienced, experts pointed out that the area is still in its first wave of infections.
From the Bío Bío Health Seremi they encrypted 802 deaths product of the covid-19 in the area, seven more than in the previous report.
Meanwhile, the region added 507 new infected with the virus in the last 24 hours. In this way, the total number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began rose to 47,898, of which 2,643 are still active.
Los Angeles led the number of new positives with 62. Talcahuano followed, with 61; Concepción, with 58; and San Pedro de la Paz and Hualpén, with 45 cases each.
The head of the portfolio in the region, Héctor Muñoz, reported on the current provision of critical units and the communes with the most infected assets in the Bío Bío, being Concepción the first, with 361, Los Angeles with 297 and Talcahuano with 248.
“On critical beds, we have had a slight increase availability, which is 34 ICU beds, out of a total of 212, and 26 ICU beds, out of a total of 140, which correspond to 16% and 19% availability ”, he explained.
The first wave continues
Despite the fact that the region is experiencing its worst moment since the arrival of covid-19 in the area, in terms of new cases, Javier Labbe, director of the Public Health Magister at Andrés Bello University, indicated that the Bío Bío has not yet entered to the so-called second wave of infections, “Without showing a significant reduction in the rates of new cases”.
Interpretation similar to that of the epidemiologist and expert in pandemics, Aníbal Vivaceta, an academic at the University of Valparaíso, who incidentally questioned the use of masks in open spaces.
In the balance delivered by the government authorities, at the regional level, it was reported that 6,800 people could not pass through the six checkpoints that the Greater Concepción sanitary cordon provides, during the day on Thursday, which will be valid until 5 a.m. on Saturday, January 2. In total, 112 thousand inspections were carried out in the cordon.
In turn, from the National Defense for the Bío Bío 36 arrests were reported for violating the curfew during the early hours of Friday and 12 arrests, on the day of Thursday, for traveling in communes under quarantine without the corresponding documentation.
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