Chile, with the highest number of active coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic – Telam

The country has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.

Chile today recorded 37,958 active cases of the coronavirus, the highest amount to date in the pandemic, with around 7,000 infections in the past 24 hours, it has been officially reported.

The Health Ministry reported today that in the past 24 hours, 6,836 people have been infected with the disease, after having surpassed 7,000 in one day for the first time yesterday, and 99 have died from it.

Thus, since the start of the pandemic, 931,939 confirmed cases of coronavirus have accumulated, of which 37,958 people had the active infection -651 more than the previous record, recorded on June 21 – and 22,279 died from the disease.

Likewise, the ministry indicated that in the In the last 24 hours, 76,335 PCR tests were performed with 8.7% positive results., in both cases also record since the start of the pandemic, according to the newspaper of Santiago El Mercurio.

With the figures known today, the country has accumulated 40,876 infections in the past seven days and 106,397 so far in March, with 46 of the 52 municipalities in the Santiago metropolitan region with the highest number of active cases. since August 1. La Tercera newspaper.