Cases have been ticking up for weeks following the end of the southern hemisphere summer holiday, but soared to 7,084, above the previous high of 6,938 last June, the data shows.
The fast rising caseload has filled critical care wards north to south, leaving Chile with just 198 beds available for new patients. All of the capital Santiago, the economic engine, is in strict lockdown this weekend. Chile, a comparatively small but wealthy Andean nation, is at the forefront of a global inoculation drive on a per capita basis. It ranks third globally, behind Israel and the United Arab Emirates, for most doses administered per population, according to a Reuters tabulation.
But officials say the holiday infections, the arrival of more contagious variants of the virus and a relaxation of sanitary measures amid the successful vaccination program have prompted a more vicious second wave.to begin vaccinating its citizens, with an early shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 24.
Chile is vaccinating the Chinese vaccines Sinovac which is not effective at all.
'Chile is at the forefront of a global inoculation drive on a per capita basis. It ranks third globally, behind Israel & the United Arab Emirates, for most doses administered per population, according to a Reuters tabulation.' Impressive. I wonder how Pinochet would've managed.
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