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For the third consecutive day, the Ministry of Health reported more than three thousand new cases of coronavirus in the country. On December 31st -on the last day of the year- 3,022 daily infections were reported; figure that rose yesterday with 3,588 new positives and today 3,338 were diagnosed.
The holder of the portfolio, Enrique Paris, reported – at the beginning of the balance sheet on the evolution of the pandemic – that the variation of new cases in the last seven days at the national level reached 16% and in the MRI, during the same period, 24%. In addition, he added that “although unfortunately we observe an increase in cases, so far the increase is much lower than that projected by our studies.
Thus, of the new cases reported in the Minsal spokesperson, 2,055 are symptomatic, 1,165 asymptomatic and 118 have not yet been notified. And with it, the Total infections detected in the country since the start of the pandemic amounted to 615,902.
The Metropolitan Region continues to lead in the new positives and counted, for the second consecutive day, more than eight hundred (873). They are followed by Los Lagos (489), which broke his daily record again; and Biobío (482). The Los Ríos Region, meanwhile, reported 189 new cases and also exceeded its maximum number of infections since the start of the pandemic.
As for active cases – which yesterday reached the highest number since September 14 -, Today they rose to 16,870, the highest number since September 7. Furthermore, 581,961 people have recovered from the disease.
According to the data reported by the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), the number of people who have died from the virus is 16,724, with 64 new deaths registered.
In relation to the healthcare network, there are currently 791 people hospitalized in intensive care units, 616 of them are connected to mechanical fans and 67 are in critical condition.
The Undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Alberto DougnacHe added that 46,178 PCR tests were performed in the last day. The daily positivity in the country, meanwhile, remains at around 7%.
