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This morning, the undersecretary of Assistive Networks, Arturo Zúñiga, announced the balance regarding those diagnosed with Covid-19 in the country.
In this regard, he reported that in In the last 24 hours, with a cutoff at 9:00 p.m., 464 new cases have been registered of people who have been positive with the virus, which gives a total of 11,296 people diagnosed.
In addition, he regretted the death of 13 people, the highest number since the start of the pandemic in the country.
As indicated, They correspond to nine people from the Metropolitan Region, one from Biobío, one from La Araucanía, one from Antofagasta and one from Valparaíso.
Seven out of thirteen people did not require being in the intensive care unit, he explained, since proportional management was performed due to his previous illnesses.
As for the recovered persons, that is, those who were diagnosed as positive for the virus and passed the corresponding 14 days of quarantine, the figure rises to 5,386. That is, he explained, 48% of people who have been infected in the country have already recovered.
In addition to this, the undersecretary indicated that 6,365 exams have been carried out, which gives a total of 128,722 tests that have been carried out in the country, and that have given a positivity rate of 8%
As for the number of hospitalized patients, I indicate, there are 399 in the intensive care unit, of which 309 – that is to say, 3 out of 4, undersecretary Zúñiga said – are in mechanical ventilation.
This figure, he indicated, “has remained stable”, as well as the number of infections.
Of those patients in critical care, this continues to decrease and there are currently 66.
Health officials – both from the public and private areas – who are diagnosed with coronavirus and are currently in quarantine, he said, are 718.
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