Chile exceeds, for the first time, 8,000 new daily Covid cases



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The Ministry of Health confirmed this friday 8,112 new cases of Covid-19 detected in Chile … For the first time in more than a year of epidemic, our country added more than 8,000 additional infections in 24 hours.

The figure confirms that the contagion curve continues to rise, in the midst of a critical hospital situation throughout the country: on Thursday 7,830 new cases had been registered, surpassing the “psychological barrier” of one million infections.

The report of this day gives an account of other 93 people died as a result of the coronavirus (there are 23,421 in total, according to this count; but there are more than 30 thousand if the probable deaths from Covid are added), and 45,202 assets; that is, currently contagious.

The 8,112 new cases were detected from 73,543 PCR testsThis indicates that the positivity at the country level stood at 10.77 percent at the country level. In the Metropolitan region, meanwhile, detailed the Minsal, reached 12 percent.

Finally, the official balance reports 169 beds available in the unified health network, and 5,193 places available in healthcare residences.



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