Chile: Alarming rise in COVID cases despite vaccination efforts

Latin American country is in a severe health crisis as ICU units overflow despite successful vaccination run.

Chile has been battling the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has turned out to be far more aggressive than the first one, despite the Latin American nation vaccinating more than one-third of its population. More than 5,000 new infections have been reported on average daily in the past seven days, with the Metropolitan region, where the capital city of Santiago is located, accounting for 44 percent of all cases in the country. More than 21,000 people have died and more than 900,000 people have been infected by the virus that has killed 2.6 million people worldwide.