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A total of 36 people infected with coronavirus at the Chilean base in the Antarctic Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme (BAE) was the balance left by the visit of the ship Sergeant Aldea de la Armada, after the alarms were turned on due to cases of Covid-19 among the crew.
Through a statement, the Army explained that those affected were evacuated by medical personnel after presenting symptoms and then subjected to PCR tests. “36 men tested positive for Covid-19, of which 26 correspond to Army personnel and 10 are civilians from a contractor company which was carrying out scheduled maintenance work at the Antarctic base ”.
It should be noted that the total number of infected personnel from the military branch corresponds to all personnel who remained on mission at the Antarctic base. After their evacuation, the sanitization of the entire enclosure.
The affected uniformed officers, “are duly isolated and constantly monitored with the support of the Health Authority of the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, achieving so far a favorable diagnosis and without any complications associated with Covid-19 on the part of our staff, ”the statement added.
On December 17, the Chilean Navy reported that the crew of the Sergeant Aldea ship began a preventive quarantine inside the ship after detecting three cases of coronavirus among its 208 crew members. The vessel visited the Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base between the November 27 and December 10.
