Today in Chile there are 909 people seriously ill from covid-19 and connected to mechanical ventilation. This day, with 20,400 new cases, corresponds to the lowest Wednesday in four weeks. As of 5:00 a.m., 48 communes plus the entire Metropolitan region advanced to both Initial and Advanced Opening in the Step-by-Step Plan. In addition, today the school year was officially launched, with compulsory attendance and without capacity. Remember: vaccines prevent serious illness and death, not infections.
This Wednesday morning, the Ministry of Health (Minsal) reported the detection of 20,400 new cases of covid-19 in Chile.
13,074 of them were declared symptomatic, 2,418 asymptomatic, and 4,908 states were not reported.
With the result of the day, the lowest Wednesday in four weeks, Chile has already accumulated 3,098,110 diagnoses since the start of the emergency.
Besides, the number of patients in the active stage of the disease fell again, from 98,421 to 91,717.
According to official figuresthe variation of cases at the national level was -18% in seven days and -21% in two weeks.
According to the digital balance, 15 regions have decreased their cases in the last week and 11 to 14 days.
Like yesterday, the only area in Chile that registers an increase in cases compared to previous days is Ñuble.
“Of the 20,400 new cases, 47% are diagnosed by antigen tests, 34% originate from Active Case Search (BAC) and 16% of those notified are asymptomatic,” they detailed in a statement.
If the incidence rates of active cases per 100,000 inhabitants are observed, it can be concluded that the situation continues to be overwhelmed from north to south.
However, today there is no region above the threshold of a thousand cases and all are below the barrier of 900, a drop compared to previous days.
Today they led the table Los Ríos (883.6), Bío Bío (856.3) and Ñuble (837.6).
Hospitalized covid-19 patients represent 47.06% of the ICU
In ICU, the Government indicated this day that there are 2,519 critical beds enabled, 182 free and 2,337 occupied.
Of this group, 1,100 patients are hospitalized due to covid-19909 of them serious and subjected to mechanical ventilation (82.64%).
That is, the general occupancy of the ICU is 92.77%, where 47.06% of internees are due to coronavirus.
With this Wednesday, the ICU closes 11 days over the threshold of a thousand patients with coronavirus.
The age group with the greatest presence in the ICU corresponds to that of people older than 70 years, 431 people, 40.43%.
By region, the Metropolitan concentrates the largest amount of income (521 people, 47.36%), followed by Bío Bío (9.27%) and Valparaíso (8.36%).
Positivity and deaths from covid-19
For its part, the national positivity of the PCR was set at 20.96%.
That after the analysis of 51,973 tests for coronavirus in 177 laboratories.
This represents a drop in terms of the exams reported to prepare the balances for February, since on 02/23 there was talk of 58,098, 73,024 on 02/16, 84,477 on 02/09 and 82,182 on 02/02.
In January, the first two Wednesdays (5 and 12) saw the processing of 43,127 and 48,237 exams, respectively.
By region, Maule led the list of the day with 41.14% positivity.
Five other areas marked over 30%: Ñuble (39.08%), Bío Bío (37.39%), Los Ríos (32.49%), Coquimbo (32.48%) and Los Lagos (30.88%) .
Finally, the Department of Statistics and Health Information (DEIS) added 30 deaths to the national list.
With this, the total number of deaths associated with the pandemic reached 42.411.
The largest number of human losses is concentrated in the group of 70 to 79 years, 11,400, 26.88% of the total.
Check the official infographic of the day
Read the Minsal report for this Wednesday, March 3, 2022
Remember the new infections of covid-19 for each Wednesday since April 2021
2022
March
02-03-2022 20.400
February
23-02-2022 24.700
16-02-2022 30.971
09-02-2022 33.362
02-02-2022 29.844
January
26-01-2022 18.446
19-01-2022 9.509
12-01-2021 4.847
05-01-2022 1.858
2021
December
29-12-2021 1.295
22-12-2021 981
15-12-2021 1.080
08-12-2021 1.401
01-12-2021 1.538
November
24-11-2021 1.937
17-11-2021 2.104
10-11-2021 2.229
03-11-2021 1.360
October
27-10-2021 1.753
20-10-2021 1.206
13-10-2021 766
06-10-2021 714
September
29-09-2021 525
22-09-2021 526
15-09-2021 408
08-09-2021 358
01-09-2021 375
August
25-08-2021 392
18-08-2021 503
11-08-2021 584
04-08-2021 674
July
28-07-2021 828
21-07-2021 989
14-07-2021 1.227
07-07-2021 1.892
June
30-06-2021 2.148
23-06-2021 2.768
16-06-2021 4.347
09-06-2021 5.369
02-06-2021 5.631
Mayo
26-05-2021 5.176
19-05-2021 4.778
12-05-2021 3.920
05-05-2021 3.791
April
28-04-2021 4.416
21-04-2021 4.914
14-04-2021 5.497
07-04-2021 5.134