COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chile on March 2020.^[1]

COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
Map of regions with confirmed cases (as of 12 May):   1–9 confirmed   10–99 confirmed   100–499 confirmed   500–999 confirmed   1000–9999 confirmed   ≥10000 confirmed
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Chile
Index case	Talca
Arrival date	3 March 2020 (5 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Confirmed cases	34,381
Recovered	14,865
Deaths	347
Government website
minsal.cl: Nuevo Coronavirus COVID-19

As of March 2020^[update] there is a COVID-19 outbreak in Chile. The country passed a thousand confirmed cases on 25 March 2020.

First cases

On 3 March, The Minister of Public Health confirmed the first case of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Chile, thus making the country the fifth in Latin America to report such an instance after Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina.^[2]

The next day, two more cases were confirmed.^[3]

Responses

On 13 March, President Sebastián Piñera announced a ban on public events with more than 500 people, as the government tries to control the spread of coronavirus.^[4] A week later, he announced a state emergency.^[5]