This Saturday morning, the Ministry of Health (Minsal) – through the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS) – added 24 new deaths to the national list due to the Covid-19 pandemic (23 confirmed and 1 probable ). In addition, a PCR positivity rate was reported reaching 11.80%, with 101 consecutive balances in double digits.
With today’s report, deaths associated with the pandemic reached 63,640, assets rose to 7,326, and accumulated infections rose to 5,101,837. In addition, the Minsal reported the detection of 2,276 new infections in Chile, 1,453 symptomatic, 186 asymptomatic, and 637 positive diagnoses that patients were not informed about.
Despite the fact that testing fell and has been below 20,000 samples per day for weeks, the Minsal estimates that the pandemic is in decline, 23.8% in the last week and 31.9% in 14 days. “Of the 2,276 new cases, 59% are diagnosed by antigen test, 29% originate from active case search (BAC) and 11% of those notified are asymptomatic,” they detailed in a statement.
Finally, the Government estimated at 967 those hospitalized for a picture of covid-19, 118 of them in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with updated data until this Friday. With the result of the day, the total number of patients in the active stage of the disease rose from 7,043 to 7,326, 2,599 of them in the Metropolitan Region.
