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This Tuesday the Health authorities delivered a new report on the advance of the coronavirus in the country, an opportunity where they revealed 922 new cases of COVID-19, the lowest figure since last April 30, when 888 daily cases were reported. It should be noted that since May 4, no figures were reported below 1,000 cases.
In relation to the totality of new cases, 569 correspond to symptomatic people and 300 to people who do not present symptoms. In addition, 53 Positive PCR tests were recorded that were not reported.
The total number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country reaches 504,525. Of that total, 9,035 patients are in the active stage.
Regarding deaths, according to the information provided by the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), In the last 24 hours, 23 deaths were registered from causes associated with COVID-19. The total number of deceased amounts to 14,026 in the country.
To date, 740 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU), of which 619 are on mechanical ventilation support and 86 are in critical health. In relation to the Integrated Health Network, there is a total of 367 ventilators available for the patient who requires it, regardless of the region where they are.
Regarding the Laboratory Network and the diagnostic capacity, This Monday the results of 20,012 PCR tests were reported, reaching a total of 4,177,395 tests analyzed nationwide to date.
In this regard, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, pointed out that “daily new cases total 922. It is an important signal, but also a call to citizens to continue taking care of themselves and not lower their arms against the fight against the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the variation of new confirmed cases at the national level decreases 1% for the last seven days and 12% for the last 14 days ”. Likewise, 11 regions decreased their new cases in the last seven days and 12 in the last 14 days. Paris highlighted that “the positivity rate in the last 24 hours is 4.61%.
The regions with the highest increase in new confirmed cases are Tarapacá, Araucanía, Los Ríos and Ñuble. The Magallanes region continues to show a significant decrease in the incidence rate per 100 thousand inhabitants, but it continues to be the highest in the country.
In addition, the health authority reported that: “922 new cases are reported, of which 23% originate from active case search (BAC) and 35% of those notified are asymptomatic. As for the Metropolitan region, it presents 13% due to BAC and 35% of the reported cases are asymptomatic ”.
Cases by region:
National summary:
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