Epidemiological report: Puerto Montt exceeds 500 active cases and leads in this indicator along with Iquique and Los Angeles

Puerto Montt, Iquique and Los Angeles are the three communes with the most active cases in the country. This, as revealed by the 80th Epidemiological Report published this afternoon by the Ministry of Health and which gives an account of the evolution of the pandemic in each municipality.

According to the new figures, the capital of the Los Lagos Region exceeded the barrier of five hundred active infections (566) after registering an increase of more than one hundred positives in one week.

A trend that also repeated Iquique. The city counted 344 active cases in last Saturday’s report while today it registers 488, that is, 144 more. In fact, in seven days it went from sixth to second place on this indicator. Likewise, Los Angeles had an increase of 45 assets in the same period of time.

At the national level, meanwhile, 38 communes currently exceed one hundred active cases and 10 of them belong to the Metropolitan Region: La Florida, Las Condes, Maipú, Peñalolén, Puente Alto, Renca and Santiago -which also increased their number of assets in the last seven days-, in addition to Ñuñoa, Pudahuel and San Bernardo.

It should be remembered, on the other hand, that during the Health balance of this day, the minister Enrique Paris expressed “great concern” about the increase in the number of daily infections and noted, for example, that in the RM new cases of Covid-19 have increased by 39% in the last 14 days.

Check below the list of the communes with the most active infections in the country.

1. Puerto Montt: 566 active cases
2. Iquique: 488 active cases
3. Los Angeles: 437 active cases
4. Antofagasta: 387 active cases
5. Punta Arenas: 385 active cases
6. Conception: 370 active cases
7. Valdivia: 346 active cases
8. Puente Alto: 344 active cases
9. Temuco: 342 active cases
10. Curicó: 337 active cases
11. Chillán: 336 active cases
12. Valparaíso: 304 active cases
13. Talcahuano: 278 active cases
14. Maipú: 272 active cases
15. Colonel: 260 active cases
16. Santiago: 256 active cases
17. Viña del Mar: 251 active cases
18. San Pedro de La Paz: 248 active cases
19. Florida: 226 active cases
20. Osorno: 223 active cases
21. Alto Hospicio: 216 active cases
22. Talca: 205 active cases
23. Arica: 174 active cases
24. Las Condes: 174 active cases
25. Rancagua: 171 active cases
26. Pudahuel: 155 active cases
27. Chiguayante: 149 active cases
28. San Bernardo: 139 active cases
29. Father Las Casas: 135 active cases
30. Cañete: 131 active cases
31. Hualpén: 130 active cases
32. Burbot: 129 active cases
33. Peñalolén: 126 active cases
34. Ovalle: 124 active cases
35. Ñuñoa: 123 active cases
36. Penco: 116 active cases
37. Renca: 110 active cases
38. Arauco: 103 active cases

In parallel, the health authority also published the weekly report of deaths of the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS). According to this document, the total of confirmed and suspected deaths from coronavirus in the country amounted to 21,863.

The most affected regions – adding both indicators – are the Metropolitan (13,803); Valparaíso (1821); Biobío (1.007) and O’Higgins (867).

As detailed in the report, at the national level, 16,404 deaths have been confirmed due to Covid-19. On the other hand, suspicious deaths reach 5,459.