The Ministry of Health reported on 1105 new cases of Covid-19 in Chile, with a positivity of 1.77% in the last 24 hours nationwide, with 58,879 tests, PCR and antigen tests.
The head of the Health Portfolio, Enrique Paris, said that “although in the last 3 days there have been more than a thousand new cases per day, the occupation of ICU beds remains low. In fact, the number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 in these three days has decreased; on Friday the Integrated Health Network reported 377 hospitalized in ICU while yesterday Saturday decreased to 367 and today Sunday corresponds to 348 people, going from 314 to 338 critical beds available between Friday and Sunday. ”
“This thanks to the high percentage of vaccination against Covid-19 that allows us to have almost 92% of the target population vaccinated with one dose, and almost 90% with both doses and about 3,800,000 people with their booster dose, a process that with the results we published during this week it was evident that with any of the three vaccines applied in Chile as a booster, increases the effectiveness to avoid hospitalization: with CoronaVac by 88%, with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine 87% and with the application of the AstraZeneca vaccine by 96%,” added Dr. Paris.
According to the report, positivity in the Metropolitan Region is 3% and 14 regions have a positivity less than or equal to 2%. Eight regions have decreased their cases in the last seven days and five have decreased in the last two weeks. The variation of new confirmed cases at the national level is 22% and 41% for the comparison of 7 and 14 days respectively.
Of the total number of new cases, 16% are diagnosed by antigen test, 23% originate from Active Case Finding (BAC) and 27% of those reported are asymptomatic. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Region presents 15% by antigen, 20% by BAC and 23% of reported cases are asymptomatic.
According to sampling, the regions with the highest positivity are Metropolitana, Valparaíso, O’Higgins and Tarapacá. Meanwhile, the region of Arica and Parinacota registers the highest incidence rate at the country level per 100 thousand inhabitants, followed by the regions of Tarapacá, Aysén and Metropolitana.
According to today’s report, of the 1,105 new cases of Covid-19, 732 correspond to symptomatic people and 265 have no symptoms. In addition, there were 108 positive PCR tests that were not reported.
The total number of people who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the country reaches 1,662,433. Of that total, 5,290 patients are in the active stage. The recovered cases are 1,616,329.
As for the deaths, according to the information provided by the DEIS, in the last 24 hours there were 10 deaths due to causes associated with Covid-19. The total number of deaths stands at 37,564 in the country.
To date, 348 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units, of which 263 are supported by mechanical ventilation. In relation to the Integrated Health Network, there is a total of 338 critical beds available for the patient who requires it, regardless of the region where they are.
Regarding the Laboratory Network and diagnostic capacity, yesterday the results of 58,879 PCR tests and antigen tests were reported, reaching to date a total of 22,384,381 analyzed nationwide. The positivity for the last 24 hours at the country level is 1.77% and in the Metropolitan Region it is 3%.
With respect to the Health Residences, we have 85 lodging facilities, with 6,922 total beds. The actual occupancy nationwide is 41%, leaving a total of 3,344 beds available to be used.
