Chile started the year close to its contagion record

The health situation in Chile, despite the arrival of the first batch of vaccinations, is still very complicated. Today, the Trans-Andean country was going through its first day of the year with a rebound in coronavirus cases, recording 3,588 infections and 52 deaths in the last 24 hours. In this way he approaches the case history, marked on July 10, when 4,000 new patients were detected.

he Ministry of Health confirmed that infections have increased by 31% in the past 14 days, although four regions managed to record a decrease in new cases.

33% of cases are asymptomatic. “We know that one of the important aspects in dealing with this pandemic is to find the people who have the virus, but we do not know that they are infected, because in this way it is possible to detect the cases and take measures to isolate them in a timely manner and prevent the spread of the coronavirus ”, Enrique Paris, Minister of Health.

With regard to the deaths of those infected, in the last 24 hours there has been 52 deaths for causes associated with Covid-19. The total number of deaths is 16,660.