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COVID 19 now covers entire globe as first cases reported in Antarctica
36 people have tested positive for the virus at Chile’s armed forces base in Antarctica.
By Hanie Abdul Razak| Published: 23rd December 2020 3:17 pm IST
The coronavirus has now reached every continent of the earth as Chile’s armed forces announced this Monday that 36 people have tested positive for the virus at its Gen Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme Antarctic base. They said the positive cases include 26 army personnel and 10 civilians of a maintenance contract company.
Afterwards, on Tuesday, the Health Minister for the Biobio region said there are 21 personnel on a navy supply vessel headed to Antarctica called the Sergeant Aldea that tested positive.
TORONTO The novel coronavirus has now spread to every continent on Earth. Three dozen people have reportedly contracted COVID-19 at a Chilean research base in Antarctica, which was for months the only landmass untouched by the global pandemic. According to several Spanish-language reports on Monday, the positive cases include mostly members of the Chilean Army as well as 10 maintenance contractors at the Bernardo OâHiggins research base on the northernmost point of the Antarctic Peninsula. Last week, a Chilean newspaper reported that the government was aware of positive COVID-19 test results among members of a group that travelled to Antarctica.