SANTIAGO, May 23 (Xinhua) — Chile registered more than 7,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 for the second day in a row, after tests detected 7,614 infections in 24 hours, Health Minister Enrique Paris said.
According to the Health Ministry’s daily pandemic report, the new cases brought the country’s confirmed caseload to 1,315,913 since the onset of the outbreak here in March 2020.
Of the new cases, 1,943 presented no symptoms, said Paris, adding only four regions in the country saw a decline in cases over the last seven days, while nine regions saw a decline over the last 14 days.
Chile also registered 121 more deaths from causes associated with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the pandemic death toll to 28,290.
BRAZIL reported 2,215 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the national count to 446,309, the Ministry of Health said.
The ministry said that 76,855 more infections were detected, raising the nationwide tally to 15,970,949.
According to the ministry, Brazil now has a death rate of 212.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Brazil has the world’s second highest COVID-19 death toll, after the United States, and the third largest caseload, following the United States and India.
Brazil has vaccinated 61.3 million people with 20.2 million having received two jabs.
ARGENTINA reported 695 more deaths from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 24 hours, raising its pandemic death toll to 73,391.
According to the Ministry of Health, in the same 24 hours, tests detected 35,468 new cases of COVID-19, meaning 3,482,512 people have tested positive for the virus since the onset of the outbreak here on March 3, 2020.
The South American country has applied 10,905,068 vaccines against the disease since Dec. 29, when its inoculation campaign began.
Argentina’s government on Thursday ordered a nine-day lockdown starting Saturday, given the exponential growth in infections. — NNN-XINHUA
