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This Thursday the health authorities delivered a new balance of the progress of covid-19 in the country. The figures tell of a high number of deaths, the highest in two months, in addition to resuming the level of testing that had been practiced prior to National Holidays, which led to the re-display of new infection figures ranging from 1,500 to 2,000 cases per day.
Despite the decrease in the number of examinations in recent days, according to the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, “the country continues to show a downward trend, 13 of the 16 regions decreased their new cases in the last 7 days and 8 in the last 14. The variation of new confirmed cases at the national level decreases by 16% in the last seven days and 6% in the last 14 days ”.
The authority expressed special concern about what is happening in the Magallanes, Aysén, Los Lagos and Araucanía regions. Regarding Magallanes specifically, it presents an exorbitant positivity that reaches 42%.
Paris also reported that “of the 1,731 new cases, 16% originate from Active Case Search (BAC) and 24% of those notified are asymptomatic. As for the Metropolitan region, it presents 10% due to BAC and 20% of the reported cases are asymptomatic ”.
This Thursday’s report also states that of the 1,731 new cases of covid-19, 1,282 correspond to symptomatic people and 395 do not present symptoms. In addition, 54 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 451,634. Of this total, 12,289 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, 124 deaths were registered due to causes associated with covid-19. The total number of deceased amounts to 12,469 in the country.
To date, 890 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units, of which 673 are on mechanical ventilation support and 124 are in critical health.
In relation to the Integrated Health Network, there are a total of 465 fans available for the patient who requires it, regardless of the region where they are.
Regarding the Laboratory Network and diagnostic capacity, this Wednesday the results of 29,078 PCR tests were reported, reaching to date a total of 3,113,195 tests analyzed nationwide.
Figures by region:
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