The accumulated cases of Covid-19 increased to 334,463 on Thursday, February 18.

In the last 24 hours, 21 deaths occurred and a previous death was updated, bringing the total number of deaths from covid-19  to 5,694, reported the Ministry of Health (Minsa).

The new cases were detected after 8,758 tests were applied, which showed positivity of 8%.

1,446 people are hospitalized, of whom 1,229 are in ward and 217 in intensive care units.