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SANTIAGO – O minister da Saúde do Chile, Jaime Manalich, informed this quarta-feira that the capital of the country, Santiago, will enter total confinement, equivalent to a lockdown, because the residents only have the power to buy food and remedies.
As it will affect 90% of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, where the capital is located and which concentrates 40% of the population of the country, with 18.7 million inhabitants. Announcement, which represents a review of the strategy of the conservative government of Sebastián Piñera of selective and rotating quarentenas, or on the day that Chile registered 2,660 new cases of novo coronavirus – Higher quantity daily or at the moment and a 60% increase compared to the previous day.
– O mês de maio is showing himself very hard for our country – disse Manalich.
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It will enter the confinement of the 32 communes that make up Santiago and another six in nearby areas. Segundo Felipe Guevara, governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, will measure as many as 8 milhões de pessoas. They were also included in the total quanities of Iquique and Alto Hospicio, not North. Several communes that have already been released from the confinement will be made to measure, which initially will be valid for seven days.
As regras da quarentena determined that as pessoas só podem sair de casa for trabalho em setores essenciais, buy food and remedies, munidas de permissão. In addition, a sanitary cord will be established to prevent the circulation, among the shaven communes, of people who are not involved, not supplying food or in work situations.
The minister also announced that he was required in all or Chile for people over 75 years old – previously, as it was valid for people over 80 years old. He said that “extraordinary and harsh” measures were going to come into force in this sixth February, 22h (local time), são necessárias to decrease or index of contágio. O Chile has a total of 34,381 cases of Covid-19 and 347 deaths.
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Apó or anúncio das novas measures, lines começaram to form em in front of supermarkets and pharmacies of Santiago. O President Piñera asked for collaboration in a publication on Twitter: “We have worked to protect the health and life of our compatriots. […] We need your collaboration ”.
The country is undergoing its worst phase of the pandemic three weeks after Piñera ter feito um public shaming stops a gradual resumption of economic activities, leading to or relaxing the self-control measures of a non-country, or one that was criticized by specialists. The episode was treated as one of two reasons for or an increase in the number of cases. Concerned with the forecasted forecasts for the economy – which the government estimates to be 2.5%, for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for 4.5% in 2020, due to the pandemic – or President Vinha resisting the appeals of two governors and leaders to decree a total quarentena.
From the beginning of the crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the local authorities will indicate that the projected peak of infections in Santiago would be between the last week of April and the first week of May. However, due to the low number of infected people, not the first month of the pandemic, or the government of Piñera, they have begun to experience a “maximum level” of infections, with a median of 400 to 500 infected daily, based on a strategy of “selective quarentena” and application of a large number of tests.
With the measures announced in this fourth day of the year, a move will be made from Tom Do Governo, which will start a campaign with a focus that will not show how Covid-19 will not perform – like Vinha Ocorrendo – more sims ressaltar a população os perigos de não comply with social isolation measures.
– We need to praise the government’s message – to the President of the Association of Doctors of the Country, Izkia Siches, who is part of the força-tarefa governamental against the pandemic.
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The lockdown in the Santiago Metropolitan Region occurs at a time when cases increase in the richest areas of the city, where they are identified, or the virus identified for the first time among people who have returned from travel to Itália and Ásia.
O Minister of Health fez um appeals, asking the citizens to join in the measures in a serious way, as well as encourage them to denounce any person who is not wearing a mask or who is not respecting or social distancing.
– Na verdade, a battle of Santiago and a crucial battle in the war against or coronavírus – disse.
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Manalich was questioned by journalists about the allegation that some public hospitals were dated by lotters, but he responded by saying that patients and equipment were transferred to other locals in order to avoid overloads in certain areas.
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