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Chile registers 54 new deaths from coronavirus and 3,695 more cases
EFE - 05/29/2020, 02:33 PM
(Updated with more statements by the Minister of Health)
Santiago de Chile, May 29 (EFE) .- Chile registered 54 deaths of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, which represents a new record and brings the total death toll to 944, while it accounted for another 3,698 infections, placing the total figure at 90,638, of which 38,598 have recovered, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday.
"It is the highest number of deceased, which is concentrated in older adults who faced advanced diseases, where COVID was the last (disease) that caused them to die early," explained the head of the Health portfolio, Jaime Ma?alich. .
The minister also said that he has asked the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic to audit the 'sources of information' regarding deaths from COVID-19, after a report by the investigative media Ciper that indicated that on May 25 the Ministry had recorded 63 fewer deaths from coronaviruses than those listed in the Civil Registry.
'We have asked you - and today we are going to make it official, but the comptroller already agreed with this - to fully audit the sources of information, the information bases that we use today for all these reports and to guarantee, evaluate and correct , if it is the case, that they are in accordance with the international regulations of the WHO, "said Ma?alich.
Of the 3,698 new infections, 3,355 had symptoms and 340 were asymptomatic, the minister explained.
Regarding critical care, 1,350 people are in intensive care units, of which 1,143 are connected to mechanical ventilation.
The number of critically ill patients is 306 and there are 345 fans available, the minister said.
In this sense, the percentage of occupation of critical beds is around 86% nationwide, while in the Metropolitan region, where the country's capital is located, the percentage is around 93%.
QUARANTINES IN OVERCOME SECTORS
The minister clarified some words he said the previous day to a local television channel, where he commented that "there is a sector of Santiago where there is a level of poverty and overcrowding" of the magnitude of which he was not aware, and this day he claimed to have "a very complete knowledge of the reality of the country, of its iniquity situation, of the employment situation (and) of the situation of migrants'.
'When I visit a place where I know that there is a lot of poverty, a lot of concentration of people and I see it, I reinterpret it, I reread it, in the sense of saying what possibilities we have of in this specific place, where there are 10 people living in a room with a kitchen, a quarantine is effective enough in this place ', commented the Ma?alich.
In this sense, he recalled the strategy implemented by the Government to install sanitary residences to care for people who cannot quarantine in optimal conditions in their homes.
"It is evident that the fundamental strategy in these areas with known poverty, when we speak of a health strategy, we must generate the complementation of a strategy in the sense of sanitary residences and in the isolation of their cases and contacts," said the minister. .
THOSE WHO DO NOT MEET THE QUARANTINE WILL ALSO GO TO RESIDENCES
The high authority stressed that quarantines will also be the place to which people who do not comply with the obligation to be in confinement will be sent, these are people infected or suspected of carrying the virus.
"We have decreed that all these people - who do not comply with the quarantine - be transferred, even with the support of the public force if necessary, to a supervised medical residence, so that people complete the quarantine there," said Ma?alich.
Finally, asked if he has the confidence of the country's president, Sebasti?n Pi?era, the Minister of Health said: 'I continue to count and I have the honor of continuously having the support, help of the President of the Republic and that is why I am standing here. '
In recent weeks, the Chilean Government had to change the confinement strategy in some cities, particularly in the country's capital, going from implementing selective and partial quarantines by neighborhoods and sectors to total quarantines. EFE