– The Minister of Health reported that 69,517 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, the highest number of daily examinations analyzed and thanked the laboratory teams that have made it possible to meet this goal.
“I want to emphasize that today we have reached the highest daily sum in the evolution of the pandemic. 69,517 exams have been processed in a single day and Chile has surpassed 10 million polymerase chain reaction exams. This positions us as leaders in Latin America in the number of tests per million inhabitants ”, said the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, at the beginning of the national report on the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The authority highlighted the work of the laboratories and thanked the work of the medical technologists, biochemists, pharmaceutical chemists and all the laboratory personnel, from the people who do the cleaning, maintain the equipment and process the reagents. “I am deeply grateful to the laboratory teams, which have managed to break this Latin American record,” added the minister.
The Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, stressed that this increase is part of the strengthening of the Testing, Traceability and Isolation strategy that seeks to combat the pandemic and reiterated the importance of timely testing in case of presenting symptoms and preventive of not having symptoms.
He explained that the first pillar of the strategy is testing, so people with symptoms should consult and take the test in less than 24 hours from the beginning of the symptoms. In addition, the authority reported that the Active Case Search strategy has been strengthened, in which the Seremis and the APS go to the territories to take exams for free to anyone who requests it.
“I ask, mainly those people who during the last weeks have been in social gatherings where they could have been infected, to go to these mobile laboratories to be tested. It is essential to find those people who are positive and do not know it because they do not have symptoms, that way we can control the spread of the pandemic, isolating them and their close contacts, ”said Undersecretary Daza.
Daily report
According to today’s report, 5,928 new cases of COVID-19 are registered, of which 4,052 correspond to symptomatic people and 1,520 do not present symptoms. In addition, 356 Positive PCR tests were recorded that were not reported.
The total number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country reaches 885,379. Of this total, 32,705 patients are in the active stage. The recovered cases are 830,698.
Regarding deaths, according to the information provided by the DEIS, in the last 24 hours there were 123 deaths due to causes associated with COVID-19. The total number of deaths is 21,574 in the country.
To date, 1,960 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units, of which 1,640 are on mechanical ventilation support. Regarding the Integrated Health Network, there is a total of 214 critical beds available for the patient who requires it, regardless of the region where they are.
Regarding the Laboratory Network and diagnostic capacity, yesterday the results of 69,517 PCR tests were reported, reaching a total of 10,052,114 analyzed nationwide to date. The positivity for the last 24 hours at the country level is 8.38% and in the Metropolitan Region it is 7%.
The number of Health Residences available is 175 with 12,785 places. As of today, they have 6,643 users considering all regions of the country. For more information, people who do not have the conditions to carry out an effective quarantine in their home and need to move to a Sanitary Residence, can call 800 726 666 or enter the website of the Ministry of Health, www.minsal.cl .
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