The coronavirus reaches Antarctica, 36 infected in a Chilean base- Corriere.it

According to Chilean media reports, the outbreak was identified at the General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base, which is one of 13 Chilean bases in Antarctica. The infected, 26 soldiers and 10 maintenance workers, have already been transferred to ChileThe Chilean executive said in a statement that “thanks to timely preventive action it was possible” to identify the cases, according to Newsweek.

Three crew members of the ship sent to provide support to the base were also infected. At the time of the massive spread of the pandemic last spring, winter began in Antarctica and the six-month night continued, with researchers closed, isolated at their bases. But the return of the sun and the arrival of new researchers to dozens of bases on the southern continent – the coldest and most inhospitable on the planet where there are no permanent inhabitants – has brought the virus to the ice.