Chile records an increase in covid-19 infections …

Chilean health officials have reported a further rise in infections in the Andean country, where in the past 24 hours more than 180 people have died from covid-19. From the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine (Sochimi), he warned today that the occupancy of intensive therapy beds reached 95% occupancy throughout the territory and that most people were people not vaccinated against the coronavirus .

The Department of Health reported on the more than eight thousand cases detected, as well as 185 deaths from the coronavirus disease in the past day. In their daily report from La Moneda Palace, they also reported the more than three thousand cases detected in the metropolitan area, considered the main source of infection in Chile.

“The regions with the highest increases in cases over the last 7 days are Aysén (south) with 22%, the region of Los Ríos (south) with 21% and Los Lagos (south) with 14%,” said the health Minister. ., Enrique Paris, who also reiterated his support for the “mobility pass” for people vaccinated at two doses. “Recognition of the efforts of the elderly” because with this age group “the measures (of confinement) were more stringent”, he replied to the press question.

According to Sochimi spokesman Eduardo Tobar, few cases of vaccinated patients are hospitalized. “Among the unvaccinated, I would say two-thirds are because they haven’t had their turn yet and another because they didn’t want to be vaccinated.” For her part, the Under-Secretary for Public Health, Paula Daza, announced that they will strengthen vaccination centers in the metropolitan region on weekends, from Saturday May 29 and Sunday May 30.

Chile is the sixth country in Latin America with the most confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).