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Covid-19 reaches all corners of the globe after outbreak at Antarctica base

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coronavirus, but now a Chilean research base has suffered an outbreak after at least 36 people have tested positive. It's another grim milestone as the world battles against Covid.Chile's armed forces told Reuters that 26 army personnel and 10 civilian maintenance workers have been infected at its Base General Bernado O'Higgins Riquelme.The research station, remote but permanently staffed, is operated by Chile's army.It's surrounded by icebergs and oceans and based near the tip of a northern Antarctic peninsula."We know that exposure to extreme weather affects a person's physiology," Magallanes University researcher Christian Nunez told Reuters."The condition of isolation, the changes in seasonal light with its seasonal sensitivity can also.

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