Chilean experts predict another COVID-19 peak in coming weeks
STORY: Chilean experts predict another COVID-19 peak in coming weeks
DATELINE: June 9, 2022
LENGTH: 00:02:03
LOCATION: Santiago
CATEGORY: HEALTH
SHOTLIST:
1. various of respiratory emergency
2. various of vaccination site
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): CRISTOBAL CUADRADO, Chilean Undersecretary of Public Health
4. various of COVID-19 testings
5. various of guidelines in public places
STORYLINE:
Chile will face another peak of COVID-19 infections in the next two weeks, a local epidemics monitoring group predicted on Tuesday.
Chile has been experiencing a fifth wave of COVID-19 cases for several weeks and "we could be approaching the peak in two or three weeks," Felipe Elorrieta, head of the Mathematical Epidemiological Group for the Surveillance of Epidemics and Pandemics at the University of Santiago, Chile, said in a press release.
A Chilean health official also warned of the peak but said there's a slowdown in severe cases.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish): CRISTOBAL CUADRADO, Chilean Undersecretary of Public Health
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