
For months, the hundreds of scientists and researchers who live in Antarctica have inhabited the only continent in the world without a reported case of COVID-19. But now the virus has reached even there.Three dozen people at a Chilean base have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s army announced Monday. On Tuesday, a regional health minister in Chile said there are 21 infections involving people aboard the Chilean navy’s Sargento Aldea supply vessel.Passengers on that ship, which sailed to Chile from the Antarctic Peninsula, tested positive, the Chilean Antarctic Institute informed The Council of Managers of National Antarctic …