SANTIAGO, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Chilean government reported on Saturday that the country has administered over 3 million polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since the disease was first detected in the country.
Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris told local press that "the figures that we can report today reflect the enormous effort of health workers, who have made it possible to conduct more than 34,000 tests in the last 24 hours, surpassing 3 million tests in total."
The ministry reported that 34,822 PCR tests were administered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 3,010,713 tests administered nationwide so far.
The ministry also reported 1,848 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total caseload to 444,674, with 14,319 currently active cases.
Additionally, 55 more deaths from the disease were registered in the same period of time, bringing the death toll to 12,254. Enditem
