Covid-19: Minsal reports 15 deaths, 1,061 cases and 17% positivity in Aysén, with 7,000 tests | National

With today’s balance, Chile accumulates 5,129,209 infections, 36.26% of them in less than a year under the Boric management; 52,169 confirmed deaths and 11,741 probable deaths. This Monday the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS) added 15 deaths to the national list due to the covid-19 pandemic in Chile, 14 of them confirmed and … Read more

Covid-19: Minsal reports 30 deaths, almost 3 thousand infections and 3 regions over 20% positivity | National

With 2,931 new cases, the assets rose to 9,567 and Chile marked 13.35% positivity, accumulating 94 balances in a row with the indicator in double digits. This Saturday the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS) added 30 deaths from covid-19 to the national list due to the pandemic, 27 confirmed and three probable. With … Read more

Minsal expands target groups for bivalent vaccination amid criticism for low inoculation | National

Next Monday, January 16, people from the age of 50 will be included for vaccination with bivalent doses. Likewise, from the Minsal they announced that other target groups may also be inoculated from that date with this vaccine. In the midst of criticism from mayors and ex-authorities, due to coverage and low inoculation, this Thursday … Read more

Government will analyze replacing the use of masks depending on the evolution of new variants of the covid | National

In our country, the Ómicron subvariants that are present are XBB with 129 cases and XBB 1.5 with 6 confirmed cases. The Government, through the Ministry of Health (Minsal), did not rule out returning to the use of the mandatory mask in the face of the new variants of covid-19 present in the country (variants … Read more

Minsal confirms 6 cases of the “Kraken” variant in Chile: the WHO is concerned about contagion capacity | National

The highly contagious XBB and XBB.1.5 variants from Singapore and the United States were detected in Chile. Meanwhile, experts say that there is no evidence that it could be more lethal, but it does have a greater capacity to cause peaks. The XBB and XBB 1.5 variants, known as “Nightmare” and “Kraken” due to their … Read more

Bivalent vaccine against covid: specialists accuse slowness and point to communication strategy | National

Specialists referred to the vaccination plan with a bivalent vaccine against covid, where they accused the slowness of the process and pointed to a “more aggressive communication strategy.” The detection of the BF.7 variant of the coronavirus in Chile, which comes from China and is highly contagiousput the country’s health authorities on alert. Although, the … Read more

Minsal reports less than 2,000 new cases of covid-19 and positivity reaches 13% | National

According to the case report of this Tuesday, December 13, 1,985 new cases of covid-19 were registered, where 1,303 correspond to symptomatic people and 137 do not present symptoms. In addition, a positivity of 13.45% was reported in the last 24 hours nationwide. The Ministry of Health reported 1,985 new cases of covid-19, with a … Read more