Chile: More than 2,600 cases of new coronavirus, 43 deaths due to COVID-19 in 24 hours

The Chilean Ministry of Health announced yesterday Thursday that 2,641 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the previous 24 hours, with the total number of registered infections from the new coronavirus reaching 1,751,769.

During the same period, 43 patients succumbed to complications of COVID-19, bringing the death toll from the pandemic to 38,218, according to the same source.

The positive index of the tests increased yesterday to 2.99% nationwide. In the metropolitan area of ​​the capital Santiago is at 2%.

The rolling weekly average of cases confirmed on a daily basis exceeded 2,000, something that had been happening since mid-July. The growing trend has been recorded since the beginning of September; in the immediately preceding period the average of infections had dropped to 500 per day, thanks to the progress of the immunization campaign.

SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

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Source From: Capital

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