Chile update June 16th:
+ 5.013 new positives, 184.449 total
+ 21 new deaths, 3.383 total (number still lagging due to weekend closure of public records office)
+ 1.470 ventilated, 376 critical, 377 ventilators avaliable
+ 14.575 reported tests (34,4% positivity), 873.533 total (21,1% total positivity)
Important to note:
Health Ministry has said that they detected at least 31.000 positives not reported previously which will be added tomorrow. This will leave us above Iran's total positives, and just below Peru.
Health Ministry still doesn't share the death toll that they reported to the WHO, which was much much higher than the reported to us.
Ministry of Economy reported that around 40% of businesses WILL STILL BE OPEN IN THE CAPITAL, a whooping 2.3 MILLION PEOPLE working in the "total quarantine" of Santiago.
Universidad de Chile, biggest chilean University, just announced that, due to lack of transparency and rigurosity, they will no longer work with Health Ministry data.
And, for a bigger picture on the social politics on Chile during the pandemic, here's a good Bloomberg article about it:
Two months ago, Chile was admired for its surgical approach to the pandemic -- testing widely and quarantining by neighborhood. Today it has among the world’s highest rates of per-capita infections and its once-praised health minister has been forced to resign.
www.bloomberg.com