After starting vaccination, Chile recorded highest number of daily infections since July

Chile reported 2,250 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, the highest daily number since July 24, a day after starting to apply the vaccine against the disease, it was officially reported.

With these figures, the country has accumulated 595,831 infections since the start of the pandemic, of which 14,133 people had the active infection, the health ministry said today.

Likewise, 16,358 people have died from coronavirus, including 55 in the past 24 hours, according to the official report.

Among the current infected, 678 have been hospitalized, 530 of them with mechanical ventilation and 59 in critical condition, detailed the report, according to the newspaper of Santiago El Mercurio.

The vice-president of the faculty of medicine, Patricio Meza, affirmed that it is “clearly” noted that the occupancy of intensive care beds “has increased”, for which he called for “intensifying” the measures of prevention, according to the Europa Presse news agency.

The specialist expressed his satisfaction with the “arrival of the vaccine” but warned that for it to have a positive impact on society “several months must pass, when a high percentage of the population is already vaccinated. “.

The Chilean government yesterday started applying the vaccine developed by US laboratories Pfizer and German BioNTech, and the first to receive it were health workers.