SANTIAGO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chile registered 30,675 COVID-19 infections and 224 deaths from the disease in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,953,895 confirmed cases and 41,795 deaths, the Ministry of Health said Thursday.

It also reported 106,133 active cases in the South American country.

Health Minister Enrique Paris noted that there has been a general decline in the number of infections, after a peak of more than 38,000 daily cases on Feb. 11 as a result of the Omicron variant of the virus.

New infections decreased by 14 percent in one week, with 13 of the country's 16 regions seeing a reduction in new cases, according to official data.

The COVID-19 positivity rate in the last day was 25.62 percent nationally and 17.64 percent in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, the ministry reported.