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This Saturday the Ministry of Health unveiled a new balance on the progress of the pandemic in our country, a day in which the surprising increases in cases in the regions of Los Lagos and Aysén stand out.
In both territories the highest number of new infections in the last 7 days was marked. In the case of Aysén, is he record for the highest number of infected in one day since the start of the pandemic: 21 new positives. The lakes, meanwhile, added 199 cases, doubling the maximum daily record that he had this week and exceeded 8 thousand infected in total.
By way of comparison, Aysén marked 10.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while there were 5.1 in the Metropolitan region.
Arica, with another 63 positives, and Atacama, with 84, also mark their highest regional figures of the week.
At the national level, there are 1,848 new cases. The Bío Bío remains above 200 infections a day, a threshold that has been able to go down in only 3 of the last 7 days.
Regrets the death of 55 other people in the country, which add to the sad number of victims, which reaches 12,254 people who died with positive PCR.
The testing remains fortunately high, with 34,822 PCR tests processed in the last 24 hours, leaving the national daily positivity very low: 5.31%.
In this matter, Minsal highlighted that the three million examinations processed in Chile were passed since the beginning of the pandemic.
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