translated from Spanish: Minister of Health defended “slight improvement”: “We will insist that we are working well”

The Minister of Health defended this day on a “slight improvement”, with which the government has been referring to the figures of the pandemic during the last balance sheets, after today 65 deaths were reported registered in the Civil Registry and less than 3 thousand cases of contagion per day.” There are several regions that have low incidence: Araucanía, Los Lagos, Aysén and others with higher rates. The incidence is close to 20% in new cases in the last days of the pandemic. Ten regions show growth rates below zero in new cases in the last 7 days and five regions less than zero in the last 14 days,” said Paris.The Minsal holder added that, however, “we have been cautious and when we talk about mild or incipient improvement, we talk about not lowering our arms. This is not just due to the work of the government or health officials. It is also due to the response we have had from the population.” Paris exemplified that in La Araucanía the average positivity in recent days has been 5%, in Los Lagos of 4% or in Aysén of 2%. In contrast, he said that in O’Higgins the figure reaches 45% or 39% in Antofagasta. “If you look at it in the long term, we are in a range of 25%,” the minister said, who recalled that the figure set by the UN is 10%.” We’re going to insist that we’re working well and that this work is manifesting itself in those tiny figures,” Paris said. The minister said what we are looking for is to “give the population hope (…) Chile, the homeland, needs a light of hope”

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