About 940,000 Chileans lost their jobs due to the 1:23 pandemic
(CNN Spanish) - This Thursday the Chilean Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, affirmed that in the southern country there is a downward trend in new covid-19 infections and that there is an improvement, adding that "the country He still has a fever, but the amount of fever he has now is much lower. "
In their most recent report, the health authorities reported 2,498 new cases of covid-19 in the last day and 167 deaths reported in the Civil Registry. With these figures, the country accumulates a total of 284,541 infections and 5,920 deaths since the pandemic began.
"No one has said that Chile has won the battle, quite the contrary. It is better to keep fighting, keep working hard, because although we are evolving well, we have not yet discharged this country from the coronavirus pandemic, "said Paris.
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Regarding the new cases reported this Thursday, 2,042 correspond to symptomatic cases, 230 to people who had no symptoms and 226 to cases that had not been previously reported to the Ministry of Health.
The Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Arturo Zuniga, reported that there are currently 2,099 patients in intensive care units (ICUs), of whom 1,762 are connected to mechanical ventilation and 405 remain in critical condition, which leaves a balance of 276 ventilators available in this moment in the country.
Lastly, Zúñiga pointed out that in the last 24 hours 10,831 exams were performed, for a total of 1,131,008.
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