Carabinieri shut down underground party in coronavirus detection lab

Clandestine rifle party in the Covid laboratory

Police Chile disabled one Clandestine party in a clinical laboratory for PCR testing by coronavirus. It was at the heart of Santiago de Chile, where there were 29 detainees. The encounter was immediately deactivated by the Carabinieri, since in addition to violating the quarantine officially planned to prevent new infections, none of the precautions indicated by the Chilean government were observed on the site.

Containment due to increased hospitalizations and deaths from COVID 19 it is increasing, and the security forces are continuing checks and surprise searches in the districts of the country’s capital as well as in the rest of the territory.

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This is how the police broke into this coronavirus testing laboratory, located in the Provindencia district, in front of a hospital. According to the channel Chilivision There were 29 local employees, belonging to the Tested company, who were detained for organizing the celebration.

In the clandestine party, organized by the person who ran the laboratory, the employees ate and drank alcohol without respecting any preventive measures, according to the television channel.

In Chile, the second wave of the pandemic struck with much more force than the first, according to an analysis published today by the local press which pointed out that the deaths linked to Covid-19 until last Thursday already represent more than half of the deaths. for the same cause in 2020.

According to figures from the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), since the start of the pandemic in the trans-Andean territory on March 22, 2020, more than 33,000 thousand deaths from the coronavirus, or by the consequences of this disease.

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The progress of the pandemic in Chile

Despite a lower number than 7 days ago, this is the third Saturday with the most infections, 7,796 cases in the past 24 hours. Thus, 1,117,348 people have already been infected since the arrival of the virus in the country, of which 45,965 of them are active patients, also less than that reported yesterday of 46,492

Consulted the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, replied that it is not yet possible to determine whether the peak of the pandemic has already been reached

“During the week that ends this weekend, a decrease has been achieved, we are around 7,000 cases, but we are not calm with this, we have to see in retrospect, as we have already said once , whether there is after or not it was the peak of the viral presence ”, declared Paris during the conference on the balance of cases.

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However, he stressed that “luckily we are in a state of stabilization, today for the first time the report even shows a decrease of less than 1% which we did not mean, but we are in a state of stabilization, however, that does not mean that we have beaten the pandemic, we are going to see the peak in retrospect and we have to keep working and we have to keep fighting this virus ”.

Meanwhile, the undersecretary of Assistance networks, Alberto Dougnac, pointed out that this week, 407 additional critical beds could be added, to reach 4,357. Of this total, 3,308 are occupied by Covid patients, including 2,855 with mechanical ventilation.

The latest figures, however, represent a further increase, as they exceed yesterday’s record of 3,277 hospitalized with 2,838 with ventilatory assistance.