The Chilean government has announced a tightening of lockdowns and “maximum” movement restrictions in its capital Santiago as the country's confirmed coronavirus caseload exceeded 200,000, Reuters reports.
Chile's nationwide Covid-19 case tally has reached 220,628, the health ministry said in a briefing, after officials said yesterday they had discovered 31,412 confirmed cases that had not been added to the tally previously, and announced 4,757 freshly-confirmed cases overnight.
