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He Department of Statistics and Information (DEIS) of the Ministry of Health he encrypted this Saturday at 18,313 people died, between confirmed and probable cases, by Covid-19 in Chile.
According to the 18th Weekly Report of Deaths, as of Thursday, October 15 there were 13,588 deaths with confirmed PCR test.
The probable deceased -Waiting for confirmation or discard of contagion by Covid-19-, meanwhile, they are at 4,725.
According to this report, adding confirmed and probable deaths, the Metropolitan remains the region with the highest mortality rate adjusted per 100,000 inhabitants, of 103.89. It is followed by that of Antofagasta (92.96) Y Tarapacá (66.22).
On the other hand, the regions with the lowest rate are Aysén (4.60) Y The rivers (7.62), followed by The lakes (15.35), The Araucanía (16.12) Y Ñuble (17.93).
The mortality rate nationwide, meanwhile, is located in 58.87, considering confirmed and probable deaths by Covid-19.
On the other hand, according to Epidemiological Report number 60, until October 16 Chile accumulated 553,156 cases of Covid-19 (488,190 with laboratory confirmation and 64,966 probable, without laboratory confirmation), with a rate of 2,842.8 infected per 100,000 inhabitants.
The highest cumulative incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants, according to laboratory-confirmed cases, are found in Magallanes (6,620.2), MRI (4,030.1) and Arica and Parinacota (3718.2).
Of the confirmed and probable reported cases in the Epivigila platform, from Minsal, the median age is 39 years, where 6.23 percent corresponded to children under 15 years of age, 24.25 percent to people between 15 and 29 years old, 29.74 percent to patients 30-44 years old, 28.82 percent to infected patients 45-64 years old, and the remaining 10.93 percent to elderly people 65 and over.
