SANTIAGO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chile's Minister of Health Enrique Paris on Wednesday said 16 percent of the 1,684 new cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection detected in the past 24 hours were discovered through active search.
Active search is part of an anti-COVID-19 strategy that consists of seeking out cases of infection through testing of segments of the population whether or not they have symptoms of the disease, said Paris.
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