With 10,672 infections, total assets rose to 44,160. Meanwhile, the DEIS added 32 deaths and PCR positivity was set at 14.93% with the analysis of only 43,182 samples.
This Saturday morning, in its digital covid-19 balance, the Ministry of Health (Minsal) reported the detection of 10,672 new infections6,025 of them symptomatic.
Is he third consecutive report in which Chile reports more than 10 thousand diagnoses positive.
With the result of the day, the total number of patients in the active stage of the disease rose from 41,448 to 44,160, the highest in 40 days (46,027 on June 27).
“The variation of new confirmed cases at the national level is 14% and 19% for the comparison of seven and 14 days, respectively,” they indicated from the Government.
“Three regions have decreased their cases in the last seven days and two have done so in the last two weeks,” they added.
“Of the 10,672 new cases, 40% are diagnosed by antigen tests, 46% originate from Active Case Search (BAC) and 24% of those notified are asymptomatic,” they detailed.
By region, the Metropolitan returned to 10,000 assets (10,684) after several weeks under that mark with 2,610 new cases.
In terms of incidence, Chile has 222.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which in Atacama reaches 574.2.
For its part, the Department of Statistics and Health Information (DEIS) added 32 deaths to the national list.
Thus, the total number of confirmed and suspected deaths rose to 59,773.
While, 173 patients are admitted to the ICU with a serious picture of covid-19, 123 of them on mechanical ventilation.
Currently, with 1,978 critical beds enabled and 266 available, the occupancy of the system integrated by the pandemic is 86.55%.
Finally, with the analysis of only 43,182 PCR tests, the national positivity was set at 14.93%.
Considering those of antigen, not used to determine positivity or the appearance of new variants, today’s report was made with 72,903 samples.