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Chile report over 4,000 new Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths

Santiago de Chile, Dec 14 (Prensa Latina) Chile´s Health Ministry (MINSAL) on Wednesday reported 4,086 new cases of Covid-19 and four deaths, bringing the country´s overall infection and death tolls 4,967,494 and 62,753, respectively, since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

Regions reporting highest positivity in the last week were O’Higgins, Arica and Parinacota, Antofagasta and Tarapacá.

At present, 8,467 patients are considered as active cases, 114 of them are hospitalized in ICUs. The remaining cases are at-home screening (for five days). In case they do not have proper conditions for an effective quarantine, they may move to any of the 13 Health Residences available in the country.

According to MINSAL, over 1.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far.

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