Health Minister Enrique Paris said on Tuesday’s balance sheet indicated that there is an “incipient improvement” in some quarantined parts of the country, with particular emphasis on the situation of the Metropolitan Region.
“We have 18% fewer new cases than we have in the last few days, and 16% compared to the last 14 days,” he added.
And the latest Epidemiological Report of the Ministry of Health confirms that improvement in MRI. In fact, in some communes, you can already see the date of their peaks of new contagions, according to the newspaper El Mercurio.
Forty per cent of the communes had their highest numbers during the first week of June (31 May-6 June), corresponding to week 23 since the start of the pandemic), equivalent to 21 of the 52 communes.
Central Station is one of those, recording 698 the seman of its peak. Maipú is another, with 1,804 that week. Puente Alto (2,815) and San Bernardo (1,412) are other communes that have already lived their peak. After that date, no figure has exceeded the maximum reached.
Meanwhile, week 21 (17 May-23 May) recorded 12 communes reaching their contagion records. Florida (1,716), Las Condes (742), Peñalolén (1,627) and Santiago (1,816) are some of the communes that recorded their records between those days.
Finally, week 22 (24 May-30 May) recorded peaks in the communes of Quinta Normal (724) and La Cisterna (425).
Nationally, the highest number of new cases was recorded in the week of 17 May, with 34,015 contagions.
