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The mayors of Lo Barnechea, Vitacura and Las Condes, Cristóbal Lira, Raúl Torrealba and Joaquín Lavín, respectively, expressed their concern about the outbreak of coronary virus cases in their communes, which coincide with the end of the total quarantine that until a few weeks ago ruled in these areas of the eastern sector of the capital.
Lo Barnechea and Vitacura were in confinement decreed by the Ministry of Health between March 26 and April 13.
The latest Epidemiological Report of the Ministry of Health, released yesterday afternoon -with data until May 10-, shows an evident increase in cases in these communes.
For example, Vitacura went from 68 active cases – a figure in the report on Friday, May 8 – to 99 current infected, according to information published today by Minsal.
Barnechea, meanwhile, in the same comparison, went from 165 to 171.
In turn, Las Condes, which was quarantined from March 16 to April 16, has had a sustained rise in active cases: in the epidemiological report of May 5, it presented 134 infected; in the following, on May 8, the number rose to 239 and today the Minsal reported 291 active cases in Las Condes.
Mayors’ reaction
Loan In this regard, Joaquín Lavín, said today in Chilevisión that “I am concerned that the eastern sector is experiencing what we could call the ‘second wave’. That is what we have to face now. The second wave is being stronger than the first” said the former presidential candidate.
Incidentally, Lavín said that “the conditions for a quarantine are the same or very similar or even more than when it was decreed the other time.”
For his part, the mayor of Lo Barnechea, Cristóbal Lira, told Emol that “we have had significant growth in the number of people infected. Quarantine? It has a great cost and especially the cost of unemployment. There are many people working here a day … I agree, there are a number of irresponsible people who have the covid and sometimes they are asymptomatic media and they go out into the street and try to make their normal lives. “
“We have to be clear,” he added, “that by a few irresponsible people they are taking us to a total quarantine of the commune, a measure that is going to have a cost of unemployment that we are going to take years to recover.”
The mayor of Vitacura, Raúl Torrealba, assured -also to Emol- that “in recent weeks we have had a tremendous rise, we are very concerned, we are calling people to be more careful, more rigorous on the issue of self-conduct, because we are not the authority that makes quarantine decisions. “
Torrealba added that “here we have an authority that is making a brutal effort to control this issue, let’s pay attention to it, they will know when to quarantine us, if they are seeing the numbers, they will probably rule it and if they rule it we will abide by it and we will support with full force. “
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