Coronavirus: the bad news continues in Chile

Chile have reported over 7,000 new cases of coronavirus in the past few hours, a figure that repeated for the fifth consecutive day in the trans-Andean country, which is leading the vaccination campaign in Latin America with more than six million people having received at least one dose.

the Ministry of Health clarified that in the past 24 hours, other 7,247 infections, of which 3.0198 were reported in the metropolitan area, the highest figure in nine months, despite the fact that 16 million of Chile’s 19 million people are locked up strict since last Thursday.

With the new numbers, cases amounted to 984,484 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, of which 42,509 were active, while the 101 new deaths bring the total number to 23,070.

The Assistant Secretary for Assistance Networks, Alberto Dougnac, indicated that, as we do periodically in public reports, an adjustment has been made to the total number of deaths in the last 10 days, which changed 215 cases from suspect to confirmed category. With whom, the total number of deaths associated with Covid-19 stands at 23,070 people in the country ??, as quoted by local newspaper La Tercera.

In this context, the president Sebastian piñera He proposed last night to postpone the constituent election scheduled for April 11 until May due to a new wave of covid-19, which keeps a good part of Chileans confined and which also strikes with force other countries of America. Latin.