Chile confirmed 3,992 new cases in the last day after detecting 4 thousand cases a day in the last three days. Despite this slight reduction in infections, the Chilean authorities reported an increase in the positivity of confirmed infections that rose to 7.24 percent in the country and 7 percent in the metropolitan region.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, cases increased 132 percent in the last week and with increases registered in the 16 regions of the country. While in the last 24 hours four people died from covid-19 bringing the total to 39,289 dead since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile, the health authorities reported that 460 people are hospitalized for coronavirus in Intensive Care Units, of which 384 require mechanical ventilation. From the Health portfolio they also reported that seven out of 10 of the infected people do not have their first booster dose against covid-19.
“Two doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine administered more than six months ago are totally insufficient to maintain long-term immunity and that is the reason why the booster was implemented several months ago and today we are talking about a fourth dose, “said infectologist Mabel Aylwin. This week the government began to administer the fourth dose of the vaccine to immunosuppressed people. .
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